Description: Further DetailsTitle: Parts of an AndrologyCondition: NewSubtitle: On Representations of Men’s BodiesISBN-10: 0804729190EAN: 9780804729192ISBN: 9780804729192Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/01/1997Description: The subject of this original and provocative work is the white male body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the representation of the female body. To look at the construction of this figure, the author examines a group of discontinuous works that are representative of the discontinuity in the intermittent representation of the male body. Especially in nineteenth-century narrative, where Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant write astutely on the subject, there is never continuity in representing the male body. "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Bel-Ami are flickering, episodic investigations into the male body as subject, as sentient feeling, as the subject of torture or of adulation. Not until the twentieth century can this male subject be continuously represented. Though the male body is often at center stage, in works that treat it as a metonymy of its own phallic and phallocentric power, this body has less often been seen relative to pleasure and pain, to aesthetics, to human vulnerability. An introductory chapter explores a work by Alberto Moravia, Io e lui, as well as various manifestations of the male body's most salient part, the penis, in contemporary discourse and aesthetics. Another chapter deals with writings about the forbidden activity of masturbation and focuses on the work of three disparate writers: Paul Bonnetain, Michel Tournier, and Philip Roth. In the final chapter, the author discusses several works that focus on the representation of the male body during the gay liberation movement in France and the subsequent celebration of the male body, ending with the inscription of the male body in the literature of AIDS. Among the authors discussed are Guy Hocquenghem, Hervé Guibert, and Michel Foucault.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Lawrence R. SchehrGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & CultureRelease Year: 1997 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Parts of an Andrology
Title: Parts of an Andrology
Subtitle: On Representations of Men’s Bodies
ISBN-10: 0804729190
EAN: 9780804729192
ISBN: 9780804729192
Release Date: 08/01/1997
Release Year: 1997
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Parts of an Andrology : on Representations of Men's Bodies
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Subjects & Themes / General, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1997
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Psychology
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Lawrence R. Schehr
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
