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Parts of an Andrology - On Representations of Men's Bodies (Hardcover)
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Parts of an Andrology - On Representations of Men's Bodies (Hardcover)
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The subject of this original and provocative work is the white male
body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the
representation of the female body. To look at the construction of
this figure, the author examines a group of discontinuous works
that are representative of the discontinuity in the intermittent
representation of the male body.
Especially in nineteenth-century narrative, where Edgar Allan Poe
and Guy de Maupassant write astutely on the subject, there is never
continuity in representing the male body. "The Pit and the
Pendulum" and "Bel-Ami" are flickering, episodic investigations
into the male body as subject, as sentient feeling, as the subject
of torture or of adulation. Not until the twentieth century can
this male subject be continuously represented. Though the male body
is often at center stage, in works that treat it as a metonymy of
its own phallic and phallocentric power, this body has less often
been seen relative to pleasure and pain, to aesthetics, to human
vulnerability.
An introductory chapter explores a work by Alberto Moravia, "Io e
lui," as well as various manifestations of the male body's most
salient part, the penis, in contemporary discourse and aesthetics.
Another chapter deals with writings about the forbidden activity of
masturbation and focuses on the work of three disparate writers:
Paul Bonnetain, Michel Tournier, and Philip Roth.
In the final chapter, the author discusses several works that focus
on the representation of the male body during the gay liberation
movement in France and the subsequent celebration of the male body,
ending with the inscription of the male body in the literature of
AIDS. Among the authors discussed are Guy Hocquenghem, Herve
Guibert, and Michel Foucault.
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