""In Your Face" is an acrobat of a book--agile, supple, daring,
showy, and brave. . . . a strikingly imaginative text. . . that
rarest of things, an academic text that can be read for pleasure as
well as illumination."
--"New Formations"
"Merck launches into a complex analysis of the displacement of
sex[uality] into representations of the face in a range of
texts...a dazzling kaleidoscopic display."
--"Journal of American Studies"
At a time when "sexy" can be an adjective for anything, when
sexual awareness is declared to be advancing faster in months than
in the past half century, and when pundits warn of sexual overload,
the actual representation of sex is still deemed confrontational,
aggressive, "in your face." While critics accuse the academy of an
obsession with sexuality, they also complain that nothing that
appears to refer to sex really does.
In readings ranging across film, drama, opera, fine art, and
critical theory, Mandy Merck considers these phenomena as well as
the role of the dog in anti-porn propaganda, the unacknowledged
significance of the lesbian hand, and the early retirement of the
phallus. Other topics include the relationship of women's tennis
and prostitution, the gendering of the wild and the tame in the age
of AIDS, and the sexlessness of postmodern criticism. In Your Face
ends with the face and its alleged desecration by fellatio.
Germaine Greer's condemnation of Bill Clinton for "fucking the
faces of little girls" is examined in the light of one of Monica
Lewinsky's endearments for the President--"fuckface."
In a country whose last great Presidential scandal revolved
around a key witness known only as "Deep Throat" and whose
currentChief Executive works in the "Oral Office," giving head is
going down in history. Analyzing the strange relationship of Linda
Lovelace, Camille Paglia, and Paul de Man, In Your Face concludes
by considering desire and disgust in high and low places.
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