The pan-erotic element in Shelley

The misunderstood consequences of Shelley v. Kraemer.

Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) was a landmark civil rights ruling, in which the Supreme Court held that private racial covenants could not be enforced by the state to evict black buyers of "restricted" homes. Fair housing scholars have generally dismissed or downplayed the practical effects of Shelley, since other forms of housing discrimination remained very powerful. Using spatial lag models and d...

Accusing the Erotic Subject in Levinas

ions and Concretions In the history of philosophy, the aim has predominantly been a universal and therefore neutral description of phenomena. The sphere of the erotic, so clearly linked to the sexual and gendered speci@city and singularity of the subject, seems for this reason to be a diLcult subject for philosophers. At what level of abstraction should one approach the erotic phenomenon? Pheno...

CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM & GENDER WORK Shelley

The erotic imagery of the geisha.

To cite: Smith L. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2013;39:300–301. BACKGROUND To see a geisha in real life is an unforgettable experience and one I had only recently when I saw a vision of a perfect white and pink doll face crowned with an equally perfect high dressed and shining black coiffure floating along a London street surrounded by admirers. She appeared very tall, balanced as she was on ...

The Georgian prostitutes: exotic and erotic.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(2) Society prostitution Logic, science and a whole new range of philosophies arrived in Great Britain alongside George I who ascended the throne in 1714. There were more than 50 Catholics who had a greater right to the throne than George, but Britain would not tolerate another Catholic – however close to the throne. The non-English-speaking German w...