Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Men With Breasts, Women Without 3 1 / Breasts on a Platter and the Bosom of Jesus: The Parameters of Fantasy 21 2 / Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and the Breast 5o 3 / Ut in pene: The Medical and Moral Discourses of the Breast 8o 4 / Wieland’s Busted Tropes 104 5 / Sophie von La Roche and the Communities of the Breast 137 6 / Revealing the Phallus, Concealing the Breast: The Revolutionary Fictions of Wilhelm Heinse and Therese Huber 168 7 / The Breast in Ruins: Heinrich von Kleist and the Language of the Breast 216 8 / Being the Breast, Being Without: Philip Roth, Matuschka, and Deena Metzger 248 Notes 289 Bibliography 329 Index 347 Illustrations Bev Francis as Amazon, from Pumping Iron II: The Women 4 Simon Perelstein, from The Most Beautiful Bosom in the World 8 Jeannette Apfel, from The Most Beautiful Bosom in the World 9 The Martyrdom of St. Agatha, by Sebastiano del Piombo 24 Phryne before the Tribunal, by Jean Léon Gérôme 123 The Cnidian Venus, by Praxiteles 124 Frontispiece from Wilhelm Heinse, Die Begebenheiten des Enkolp 177 The Belvedere Torso 190 Beauty out of Damage, by Matuschka 263 Warrior, by Deena Metzger and Hella Hammid 280 Which Side Do You Want? by Matuschka 285 Don’t Globalize This! by Matuschka 287 ...