Category Archives: Gender and the Body

Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Thinking About Pornography 4

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I did not go to pornography because I’d been sexually abused, but the fact that I’d been abused made the world of pornography one that it felt natural for me to inhabit. One of the effects that sexual abuse often … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: When Witches Stole Penises 2

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Part 1 ended with the following paragraph: And so on and so on, until the fundamental difference between the Jew and the woman. Neither believe in themselves; but the woman believes in others, in her husband, her lover, or her … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: When Witches Stole Penises 1

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

You won’t believe me. I know you won’t. I didn’t want to believe it myself, but I couldn’t deny what my eyes were telling me: My penis was gone! Really! Gone! I’d just come home from breaking up with my … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Thinking About Pornography 3

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Warning: This post contains a graphic description of a scene from video pornography. In the heterosexual pornographic video Secrets, there is a woman-on-woman scene—both the women are white—in which one of the performers, wearing a suit and tie, uses a … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Thinking About Pornography 2

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Warning: This post contains a graphic description of a scene from video pornography. A white woman’s mouth in the act of swallowing a white man’s penis fills the screen of my TV. Almost directly in the center of the picture, … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Thinking About Pornography 1

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Translation work has taken me away from this series, and I have been missing it. A conversation I had today with a friend reminded me, though, of the conclusion to an essay about pornography called “Inside The Men Inside ‘Inside … Continue reading →

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Pretty, Ugly, Plain

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Mandolin

i. Once when my friend was seventeen, a woman stopped her in the shopping mall and said, “Do you want to be Miss Teen Santa Clara?” And she said yes, because why not, and she came in runner up that … Continue reading →

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Constructions of masculinities in Islamic traditions, societies and cultures, with a specific focus on India and Pakistan between the 18th and the 21st century

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

This is the title of a PhD thesis written by Dr. Amanullah De Sondy, who has just accepted a position at Ithaca College. According to Joan McAlpine, who profiled Dr. De Sondy for The Sunday Times, several leading publishers are … Continue reading →

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Two Articles, One About Abortion and One About Women, Gender, Sexuality and Medicine

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

First, from The New York Times, The New Abortion Providers: [After Roe vs. Wade,] the clinics also truly came to stand alone. In 1973, hospitals made up 80 percent of the country’s abortion facilities. By 1981, however, clinics outnumbered hospitals, … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: The Violence In Me 1

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Serious domestic/intimate partner violence trigger warning in the first few paragraphs of this post. Sitting on my bed with her back against the wall, my lover—who’s come to visit during my first year of graduate school—tells me that she’s at … Continue reading →

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