Description
Book SynopsisOffers a collection that directly confronts male lived experience. This book presents an explosion of work in men's studies, masculinity issues, and male sexuality, as well as a growing literature exploring female embodiment.
Trade ReviewThe five editors (four males and a female) deliver everything implied by their book's provocative title in these 13 essays addressing an absence of male embodiment in feminist literature. Their five-year-long collaborative effort legitimizes itself as scholarly by having produced and elicited works grounded mainly in philosophical concepts of Michel Foucault, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Lacan. Arranged in four principal parts—The Phallus and the Penis, Masculine Myths and Male Bodies, Constructing Male Space, and Ethical Significance of Male Bodies—the essays reflect their authors' diverse backgrounds in philosophy, theology, sociology, religious studies, intercultural studies, literacy, language, rhetoric, literary studies, English, and architecture. The bounty of this team's clarity and persistence is incisive exploration into myths and concepts of masculinity and the lived male experience. Themes, for example, concern the ways that race, sex and sexuality, gender, identity, power, and space impact socially, politically, and personally as well as ethically and spiritually. This is a book that one recommends but does not lend, peruses and returns to, and that will prompt one to finish that journal article or register for that course of study. It surely will stimulate any reader. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels and collections.
-- G. D. Claiborne * University of Maryland University College , 2003mar CHOICE *
Table of ContentsContents
Preface by Nancy Tuana
Introduction: "What is Male Embodiment?" by Terrance MacMullan
Part 1. The Phallus and the Penis
1. Does Size Matter? by Susan Bordo
2. Large Propagators: Racism and the Domination of Women by Richard Schmitt
3. The Future of the Phallus: Time, Mastery, and the Male Body by John Zuern
Part 2. Masculine Myths and Male Bodies
4. Eating Muscle: Material-Semiotic and a Manly Appetite by Patrick McGann
5. The Disabled Male Body 'Writes/Draws' Back: Graphic Fictions of Masculinity and the Body of the Autobiographical Comic The Spiral Cage by Paul McIlvenny
6. Dragging Out the Queen: Male Femaling and Male Feminism by Terry Goldie
7. A Man by Alphonso Lingis
8. Turnabout: Gay Drag Queens and the Masculine Embodiment of the Feminine by Steven P. Schacht
Part 3. Constructing Male Space
9. The Body of White Space: Beyond Stiff Voices, Flaccid Feelings and Silent Cells by Jim Perkinson
10. Brothers/Others: Gonna Paint the White House Black . . . by Craig Wilkins
Part 4. Ethical Significance of Male Bodies
11. The Tall and Short of It: Male Sports Bodies by Don Ihde
12. Revealing the Non-Absent Male Body: Confessions of an African Bishop and a Jewish Ghetto Policeman by Björn Krondorfer
13. A Father's Touch: Caring Embodiment and a Moral Revolution by Maurice Hamington
14. Postscript: "The Phenomenological Challenge: The One and the Many" by William Cowling and Maurice Hamington
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
