{"product_id":"rum-sodomy-and-the-lash-piracy-sexuality-and-masculine-identity-9780814782248","title":"Rum  Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy  Sexuality  and Masculine Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn examination into the homoerotic and other transgressive aspects of the pirates world  Despite  or perhaps because of  our lack of actual knowledge about pirates  an immense architecture of cultural mythology has arisen around them. Three hundred years of novels  plays  painting  and movies have etched into the popular imagination contradictory images of the pirate as both arch-criminal and anti-hero par excellence. How did the pirate-a real threat to mercantilism and trade in early-modern Britain-become the hypermasculine anti-hero familiar to us through a variety of pop culture outlets? How did the pirates world  marked as it was by sexual and economic transgression  come to capture our collective imagination?  In Rum  Sodomy  and the Lash  Hans Turley delves deep into the archives to examine the homoerotic and other culturally transgressive aspects of the pirates world and our prurient fascination with it. Turley fastens his eye on historical documents  trial records  and the confessions of pirates  as well as literary works such as Robinson Crusoe  to track the birth and development of the pirate image and to show its implications for changing notions of self  masculinity  and sexuality in the modern era.  Turleys wide-ranging analysis provides a new kind of history of both piracy and desire  articulating the meaning of the pirates contradictory image to literary  cultural  and historical studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960686043189,"sku":"ByrdShop_0814782248","price":45.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814782248.jpg?v=1788292380","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rum-sodomy-and-the-lash-piracy-sexuality-and-masculine-identity-9780814782248","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}