In this Book
The Penetrated Male
Book
2013
Published by:
Punctum Books
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
summary
Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber’s Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the genderisation of its representation, The Penetrated Male offers new understandings of passivity, suggesting that the modern masculine subject is predicated on a penetrability it must always disavow. Arguing that representation is the embodiment of erotic thought, it is an important contribution to queer theory and our understandings of gendered bodies.
Table of Contents
Cover
Half-Title Page, Title Page
Copyright, Support the Publisher
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments, Epigraph
pp. i-iv
Introduction
pp. 1-22
1. The Madness of the Penetrated Body
pp. 23-70
2. The Limits of the Body
pp. 71-122
3. The Male Body and the Outside
pp. 123-164
4. Writing the Behind
pp. 165-216
Bibliography
pp. 217-238
Back Cover
Publication Data
| ISBN | 9780615870861 |
|---|---|
| DOI | 10.1353/book.76451 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 1176455046 |
| Pages | 250 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2020-07-24 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC-ND |
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