| Author | : Susan Bordo |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2000-07-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0374527326 |
In this candid analysis, Susan Bordo speaks to men and women alike, scrutinising the images and experience of everyday life. She takes a frank, tender look at her own father's body and goes on to analyse the presentation of maleness in wider society.
| Author | : Laurence Goldstein |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9780472065974 |
Poets, anthropologists, philosophers, artists, sociologists, and others provide perspectives on the male body.
| Author | : Abraham Morgentaler |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 1993-09 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0671864262 |
More and more, men are recognizing the need to educate themselves about their own bodies. This physician's guide to what every man should know about his sexual health is an informative and reassuring reference written to meet the increasing interest in male health issues. 8 line drawings.
| Author | : Kent L. Brintnall |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2011-12-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0226074714 |
Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon’s paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines—including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psychoanalysis, art history, and film theory—Ecce Homo explores the complex, ambiguous meanings of the enduring figure of the male-body-in-pain. Acknowledging that representations of men confronting violence and pain can reinforce ideas of manly tenacity, Kent L. Brintnall also argues that they reveal the vulnerability of men’s bodies and open them up to eroticization. Locating the roots of our cultural fascination with male pain in the crucifixion, he analyzes the way narratives of Christ’s death and resurrection both support and subvert cultural fantasies of masculine power and privilege. Through stimulating readings of works by Georges Bataille, Kaja Silverman, and more, Brintnall delineates the redemptive power of representations of male suffering and violence.
| Author | : Jamie Hakim |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2019-10-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1786604434 |
Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture explores the recent rise in different types of men using digital media to sexualise their bodies. It argues that the male body has become a key site in contemporary culture where neoliberalism’s hegemony has been both secured and contested since 2008. It does this by looking at four different case studies: the celebrity male nude leak; the rise of young men sharing images of their muscular bodies on social media; RuPaul's Drag Race body transformational tutorial, and the rise of chemsex. It finds that on the one hand digital media has enabled men to transform their bodies into tools of value-creation in economic contexts where the historical means they have relied on to create value have diminished. On the other it has also allowed them to use their bodies to form intimate collective bonds during a moment when competitive individualism continued to be the privileged mode of being in the world. It therefore offers a unique contribution not only to the field of digital cultural studies but also to the growing cultural studies literature attempting to map the historical contradictions of the austerity moment.
| Author | : Lynne Luciano |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2002-01-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0809066386 |
Men once dreaded being accused of vanity, but now they are spending millions on fitness training, bodybuilding, hair replacement, and cosmetic surgery in the relentless pursuit of physical perfection. In this lively examination, Luciano explores what this new world reveals about American society today.
| Author | : Rosemary Barrow |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2018-10-11 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1108583865 |
Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both original context and modern experience, while directly addressing the question of continuity in gender and body issues from antiquity to the early modern period through a discussion of the sculpture of Bernini. Accessible and fully illustrated, her book features new translations of ancient sources and a glossary of Greek and Latin terms. It will be an invaluable resource and focus for debate for a wide range of readers interested in ancient art, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and art history and gender and body studies more broadly.
| Author | : Calvin Thomas |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Anxiety |
| ISBN | : 9780252065002 |
According to Calvin Thomas, maybe he shouldn't. Maybe he should embrace his abjection - his cast-off, humiliated, and discounted status - as a way of renegotiating his identity and of interrupting the historical displacement of that status onto the feminine, or the marginalized other. This embrace of abjection, says Thomas, begins as a confrontation with the issue of the male body. The straight man, unfamiliar and unfriendly and uncomfortable with his body - the excretory, urinary, and seminal aspects of his body in particular - will find that Thomas's Male Matters explores the complicated relationships between masculinity and the male body, revealing the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender.
| Author | : Nancy Tuana |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2002-05-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780253108852 |
Revealing Male Bodies is the first scholarly collection to directly confront male lived experience. There has been an explosion of work in men's studies, masculinity issues, and male sexuality, in addition to a growing literature exploring female embodiment. Missing from the current literature, however, is a sustained analysis of the phenomenology of male-gendered bodies. Revealing Male Bodies addresses this omission by examining how male bodies are physically and experientially constituted by the economic, theoretical, and social practices in which men are immersed. Contributors include Susan Bordo, William Cowling, Terry Goldie, Maurice Hamington, Don Ihde, Greg Johnson, Björn Krondorfer, Alphonso Lingis, Patrick McGann, Paul McIlvenny, Terrance MacMullan, Jim Perkinson, Steven P. Schacht, Richard Schmitt, Nancy Tuana, Craig L. Wilkins, and John Zuern.
