Sexuality
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Conceptions of Sexuality and the Undead Vampire
This article explores the relationship between sexuality and the undead from Victorian England to present day vampire narratives
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The Lesbian Panic, Victorian Desires and the Gothic Genre
Though Sedgwick nods towards lesbian literary history in this passage, she underplays its important status in her discussion of homosexual…
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Women’s Decadent Sexuality in the Nineteenth-Century
Many people associate the term Victorian with the notion of sexual repression.
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The Literary Invitations into the Nineteenth-Century Erotic
Indeed, our fascination with the Victorian erotic unknown seems to derive largely from depictions of such anomalous practices as child…
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Not all Drag Queens are Born Equally: The Gender Identity
Drag queens allow a break in the heteronormative gender guideline while also reinforcing the social image of what it means…
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Promethean Desires: Historiography of Victorian Sexuality
Figures of scientists and engineers emerge during the nineteenth-century as icons of masculinity distinct from either the figure of the…
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Queenship Love and Separation in the Age of Mistresses
Mistresses neither took oaths, participated in public life nor intervened in assemblies.
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Androgyny and Gender Within the Gothic Subculture
The theme of this article is androgyny and gender blurring within the Gothic subculture.
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Sexual Bondage Deviances, Domination and Submission
The definitions, beliefs, practices and the importance of consent within the Leather and Bondage, Domination, Sadomasochism communities.
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An Overview of the Current BDSM Subcultures
Apart from a few studies, relatively little sociological attention has been accorded the BDSM subculture.
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Middle-class City Mysteries and Porn-Gothic Fiction
The mysterious places in city mysteries novels serve as grounds for the presentation of sensational porn-gothic fiction.
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Homosexual Vampires, Lesbians, and the Dark Ladies
This article discusses Homosexual Vampirism and vicious Dark Maidens in Gothic romantic fiction as a feminist affirmation and as prescriptive,…
