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Male Friendship (male + friendship)

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Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature by David Clark

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2010
CLARE A. LEES
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Civility, Male Friendship, and Masonic Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Germany

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2001
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Largely neglected by historians who assume that its heyday passed in Europe with the demise of the Old Regime, Freemasonry in fact became a mass phenomenon among German (and French as well as American) middle-class men in the nineteenth century. Masonic secrecy made possible a form of sociability which allowed men to experience intimate relations with each other. Within the lodge, men could experience the emotional drama of the rituals while, both in public and in the family, men increasingly sought to comply with the ideal of a man ruled by reason. Masonic rituals entailed the implicit message that the most important presupposition for civility, moral improvement and a ,brotherhood of all men' was male friendship. [source]

Queering the Seventeenth Century: Historicism, Queer Theory, and Early Modern Literature

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2008
Jeremy W. Webster
This article explores the continuing prevalence of historicism and queer theory in seventeenth-century literature. While some scholars have announced the demise of new historicism and queer theory and others have challenged these critical perspectives' methodologies and assumptions, scholarship on the history of sexuality published within the past ten years demonstrates the continuing importance of historicist and queer theories on seventeenth-century literary criticism. Queer historicists, also called alteritists, constructivists, or differentialists, argue that the seventeenth century's constructions of same-sex sexual practices, desires, and emotions are fundamentally different from those of the present day. Challenges to this position maintain that early modern representations of same-sex eroticism share some continuity with those of today. Through an examination of scholarship on female same-sex erotics, passionate male friendship, constructions of ,sodomy' as a legal and social category, the exiling of homoeroticism from the center of government to the margins of society, and depictions of same-sex desire in the theater during the seventeenth century, this piece concludes that queer historicism remains a dominant voice in early modern studies. [source]