{"product_id":"bodies-beyond-labels-daniel-holcombe-9781487556891","title":"Bodies Beyond Labels: Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBodies beyond Labels\u003c\/em\u003e explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, friendship, social relationships, and religiosity in imperial Spanish cultures, a period when embodiments of such joy were shadowed by comparatively more constrictive social conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eViewed in this manner, joy frames historic references to gender, sexuality, and present-day concepts of queerness through homoeroticism, non-labelled bodies, gender fluidity, and performativity. This collection reveals diverse glimmers of joy through a variety of genres, including plays, poems, novels, autobiographies, biblical narratives, and civil law texts, among others. The book is divided into five categories: theatrical works that use mythology to enjoy themes of homoeroticism; narrative prose and visual arts that reveal public and private homoerotic expressions; scopophilia within garden and museum spaces that make possible joyous observations of non-labelled and non-corporeal bodies; biblical narratives and epistolary works that signal religious transgressions of gender and friendship; and sexual geographies explored in historic and legal documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs new generations develop more nuanced senses of gender and sexual identities, \u003cem\u003eBodies beyond Labels\u003c\/em\u003e strives to provide new academic optics, as framed by non-labelled bodies, queer theorizations, joy in unexpected places, and the light that has historically (re)emerged from the shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Holcombe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487556896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487556891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.79d","brand":"Daniel Holcombe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46173103390975,"sku":"9781487556891","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88667666-e5ec-4b74-b9ee-28f1957ea703.jpg?v=1727180000","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bodies-beyond-labels-daniel-holcombe-9781487556891","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}