Title: After the Lovedeath
First published: 1997
Description: After the Lovedeath is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to the their nineteenth-century sources. He draws on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women.

Kramer explores this fatal normality in the self-contradictions of masculinity, the shifting alignments of femininity, authority, and desire, and the interdependency of hetero- and homosexuality. At the same time, he offers glimpses of a saving counter-normality through which gender can free itself from a rigid system of polarities.
Subjects: Crimes against, Femininity, Masculinity, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Sex crimes, Sex crimes, Sex in art, Sex in music, Sex role, Sex role in art, Violence in art, Women, Gewalt, Sexualverhalten, Kunst, Sex crimes, united states, Women, crimes against, Rôle selon le sexe, Crimes sexuels, Aspect psychologique, Femmes, Crimes contre, Masculinité, Féminité, Rôle selon le sexe dans l'art, Violence dans l'art, Sexualité dans l'art, Sexualité dans la musique, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Gender Studies
LC classification: HQ1075 .K73 1997