“In this readable and thought provoking reputation for bisexuality when you look at the traditional age, Eva Cantarella attracts regarding the complete number of sources from appropriate texts, inscriptions, and medical papers to poetry and philosophical literature to reconstruct and compare the bisexual countries of Athens and Rome.”
TRANS. Second Skins: The Human Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser
“Do we truly need systems for sex? Is sex when you look at the relative mind or in the human body? In 2nd Skins Jay Prosser reveals the drive that is powerful leads women and men literally to shed their skins as well as in flesh and mind to get a cross the boundary of intercourse. Telling their tale isn’t simply an work which comes following the reality, it is a force of their own that means it is impractical to forget that stories of identification inhabit autobiographical bodies. In this stunning first considerable research of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between human body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Showing exactly exactly just how transsexuality’s somatic transitions are spurred and enabled because of the formal transitions of narrative, Prosser uncovers a narrative tradition for transsexual systems. Continue reading “Bisexuality into the Ancient World by Eva Cantarella”