barry reay
The University of Auckland, History, Faculty Member
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1. Introduction 2. Beginnings 3. Addictionology 101 4. Cultural Impact 5. Sexual Stories 6. Diagnostic Disorder 7. Sexual Conservatism 8. Conclusion
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In a sense, one could say that the greatest discontinuity with the medieval past came in the late seventeenth century when the “advocates of further reformation rejected [the] link between religious fellowship and territorial conceptions... more
In a sense, one could say that the greatest discontinuity with the medieval past came in the late seventeenth century when the “advocates of further reformation rejected [the] link between religious fellowship and territorial conceptions of space” (p. 324)—a disjunction which fatally undermined the parochial religious system in England. “Belonging” was now about likemindedness and agency—not the accident (or rather the “providence”) of birth and place. Professor Beaver’s fine study provides much insight into this transition.
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Casual sex has become a cultural commonplace since it was named in the 1960s and later became associated with the US college sex phenomenon of “hooking up”. However, contemporary accounts of this sexual practice are curiously lacking in... more
Casual sex has become a cultural commonplace since it was named in the 1960s and later became associated with the US college sex phenomenon of “hooking up”. However, contemporary accounts of this sexual practice are curiously lacking in historical perspective. This article explores this modern history, both before and after uncommitted, non-romantic, sexual encounters – sex for sex's sake – were named as casual sex. It agues that studies that contrast the increased “sexual possibilities” of hookup sex to the assumed restrictive practices of an earlier era distort both the restrictions of the earlier period and the freedoms of the latter.
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In New York in the late 1930s and 1940s, and in Paris in the 1950s and early 1960s, young, impecunious writers, poets, and some artists wrote English-language pornography to order, mostly anonymous...
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The Cultures of the People in Early Modern England:Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850 Tim Harris; The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year, 1400-1700 Ronald Hutton; Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700 Keith Wrightson, David Levine; The World of Rural Disse...more
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... Among many others to whom I owe thanks, I would like to single out Leland Carlson, Ian Gentles, Janelle Greenberg, Christopher Hill, J. Sears McGee, Michael Perceval-Maxwell, Mary Robertson, Lois Schwoerer, Leo Solt, Ted Underwood,... more
... Among many others to whom I owe thanks, I would like to single out Leland Carlson, Ian Gentles, Janelle Greenberg, Christopher Hill, J. Sears McGee, Michael Perceval-Maxwell, Mary Robertson, Lois Schwoerer, Leo Solt, Ted Underwood, and Dewey Wallace. ...
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The Cultures of the People in Early Modern England - Popular Culture in England, c. 1500–1850. Edited by Tim Harris. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. xi+293. $45.00. - The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year, 1400–1700. By Ronald Hutton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994....more
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Although one will not find Edward Melcarth (1914-73) in the best recent histories of male homosexuality and American art, he was not always so spectral. Named in Life magazine in 1950 as one of the best young American artists, he... more
Although one will not find Edward Melcarth (1914-73) in the best recent histories of male homosexuality and American art, he was not always so spectral. Named in Life magazine in 1950 as one of the best young American artists, he exhibited as a painter, draftsman and sculptor and also practised as an illustrator, photographer and designer. His work survives in the Forbes Collection, in the Smithsonian Institution and in the art archives at the Kinsey Institute. We argue that Melcarth’s vision of the erotic was far broader than the traditional categories of sexuality that are perpetuated in art histories of homoeroticism in modern America – and that such a revisioning enables a reinterpretation of some of the better known images of homosexual art.
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ABSTRACTIn the 1990s a diverse group of female and male former college students from The City University of New York (CUNY) started to write pornography for gay men. The organizing force behind the venture was a young Hispanic man from... more
ABSTRACTIn the 1990s a diverse group of female and male former college students from The City University of New York (CUNY) started to write pornography for gay men. The organizing force behind the venture was a young Hispanic man from the Lower East Side, soon to be known either as ANONYMOUS or Julian Anthony Guerra. He revised Victorian, Edwardian, and inter-war classics, adding extensions, but did so without any period research. Astonishingly, he was a novice. In the space of only five years (1992–1996), ANONYMOUS and his amateur collaborators produced a dozen books. Their work, for Masquerade and Badboy Books, included both ANONYMOUS's reworking of the classics Sins of the Cities of the Plain, Imre, and The Scarlet Pansy, as well as Guerra's edited anthologies of gay pornography, written with his friends. Although chapters in these collections appeared under male names, most were by women and most of the writers were straight. This article focuses on these CUNY amateur pornographers, nearly all of who...
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Although one will not find Edward Melcarth (1914-73) in the best recent histories of male homosexuality and American art, he was not always so spectral. Named in Life magazine in 1950 as one of the best young American artists, he... more
Although one will not find Edward Melcarth (1914-73) in the best recent histories of male homosexuality and American art, he was not always so spectral. Named in Life magazine in 1950 as one of the best young American artists, he exhibited as a painter, draftsman and sculptor and also practised as an illustrator, photographer and designer. His work survives in the Forbes Collection, in the Smithsonian Institution and in the art archives at the Kinsey Institute. We argue that Melcarth’s vision of the erotic was far broader than the traditional categories of sexuality that are perpetuated in art histories of homoeroticism in modern America – and that such a revisioning enables a reinterpretation of some of the better known images of homosexual art.
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Livre: Sex before sexuality: a premodern history (paperback) (series: themes in history) PHILLIPS Kim M., REAY Barry.
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Reay starts briskly with a working definition of 'popular cultures' as 'widely held and commonly expressed thoughts and actions', the plural of cultures representing 'the subcultural... more
Reay starts briskly with a working definition of 'popular cultures' as 'widely held and commonly expressed thoughts and actions', the plural of cultures representing 'the subcultural splinterings (or segmentation) of locality, age, gender, religion, and class' (1). His method is to devote ...
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Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 18001930 uses a local study of the Blean area of Kent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern... more
Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 18001930 uses a local study of the Blean area of Kent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore some of the more significant societal changes of the modern western world. Drawing on a ...
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INTRODUCTION There are numerous tudies of literacy and education in the past. A vast apparatus of scholarship has been erected on a simple measurement of "literacy": a person's ability to sign his or... more
INTRODUCTION There are numerous tudies of literacy and education in the past. A vast apparatus of scholarship has been erected on a simple measurement of "literacy": a person's ability to sign his or her name.l The general contours of "signature literacy" have been established, ...
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There is an influential strand in the history of the Englishfamily, casting its shadow over interpretations of the nineteenth century and rapidly becoming sociological orthodoxy, which stresses the centrality of what has been termed the... more
There is an influential strand in the history of the Englishfamily, casting its shadow over interpretations of the nineteenth century and rapidly becoming sociological orthodoxy, which stresses the centrality of what has been termed the autonomous nuclear family. In this interpretation, the nuclear ...