{"product_id":"the-erotic-margin-sexuality-and-spatiality-in-alterist-discourse-paperback","title":"The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alterist Discourse - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIrvin C. Schick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGender and sexuality have long held an important place in western attitudes towards the people and regions of the world--from the titillating accounts of harem life in the Middle East to terrifying captivity narratives of North America. \u003ci\u003eThe Erotic Margin \u003c\/i\u003eis a first attempt to pull together the large, disparate, and often contradictory literature, and view it as a corpus. Schick argues that such images served to construct spatial difference, and thereby helped Europe represent its own place in the world during an age of rapid geographical expansion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInformed by the recent literature on human geography as well as feminist and postcolonial theory, \u003ci\u003eThe Erotic Margin\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on erotica and sexual anthropology as well as travel literature in which, from the eighteenth century on, both traveler and destination were portrayed in unmistakably gendered and sexualized terms. Reviewing examples ranging from the New World to India, the Near East to black Africa, and the South sea islands to the Barbary Coast, the book reflects on why foreign women were variously portrayed as alluring or threatening, foreign men as effeminate weaklings or dangerous rapists, and foreign lands as sexual idylls or hearts of darkness.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrvin C. Schick\u003c\/b\u003e divides his time between teaching at Harvard University and working in the communications industry. Born in Isanbul, he has co-edited \u003ci\u003eTurkey in Transition: New Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e, and is currently at work on a book on Turkey's cultural confrontation with modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45386570661967,"sku":"9781781680650","price":41.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/aHss3kM5Tl9781781680650.webp?v=1780228466","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/the-erotic-margin-sexuality-and-spatiality-in-alterist-discourse-paperback","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}