Talk on the Wilde Side
Subtitle: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities
By: Ed Cohen.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900; Homosexuality, Male -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography; Gay men -- Great Britain -- Sexual behavior; Trials (Sex crimes) -- England -- London; Men -- Sexual behavior -- History; Masculinity; Sex (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-256) and index.
Table of contents: label: Prologue
title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Trials; or, Why I Digress
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: Against the Norm
pagenum: 9; label: 1
title: Embodying the Englishman: A Theoretical Fiction
pagenum: 15; label: 2
title: Taking Sex in Hand: Inscribing Masturbation and the Construction of Normative Masculinity
pagenum: 35; label: 3
title: Marking Social Dis-Ease: Normalizing Male "Continence" and the (Re)Criminalization of Male Sexuality
pagenum: 69; label: Part II
title: Pressing Issues
pagenum: 97; label: 4
title: Legislating the Norm: From "Sodomy" to "Gross Indecency"
pagenum: 103; label: 5
title: Typing Wilde: Construing the "Desire to Appear to Be a Person Inclined to the Commission of the Gravest of All Offenses"
pagenum: 126; label: 6
title: Dis-Posing the Body: "Gross Indecency" and the Remapping of Male Sexuality
pagenum: 173; label: Epilogue
title: What's in a Name?
pagenum: 210