{"product_id":"bodies-beyond-labels","title":"Bodies beyond Labels","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 \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 \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","brand":"Edited by Daniel Holcombe and Frederick A. de Armas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575274274998,"sku":"9781487556891","price":62.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487556891.jpg?v=1727457138","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/bodies-beyond-labels","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}