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The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (Hardcover)
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The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 72
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Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men
have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men
may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and
privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their
biological functions. Investigations of male potency and the
'ability to perform' have long been mainstays of social, political,
and artistic discourse and have often provoked spirited and
partisan declarations on what it means to be a man. This
interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have
developed between the historical privilege often ascribed to the
male and the vulnerabilities to which his body is prone. Andrew
Mangham and Daniel Lea's introduction illustrates how with the dawn
of modern medicine during the Renaissance there emerged a complex
set of languages for describing the male body not only as a symbol
of strength, but as flesh and bone prone to illness, injury and
dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches,
the essays consider the critical ways in which medicine's
interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex,
gender, and identity are constructed through treatments of a range
of 'pathologies' including deformity, venereal disease, injury,
nervousness, and sexual difference. The relationships between male
medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly
explored through a broad range of sources including African
American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry,
Victorian literature, and the Modern novel.
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