Male matters : masculinity, anxiety, and the male body on the line

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Male matters : masculinity, anxiety, and the male body on the line

Calvin Thomas

University of Illinois Press, c1996

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-241) and index

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ISBN 9780252022029

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The contemporary straight white male finds himself, if he finds himself at all, in dilemmas too numerous to mention. Torn between the just charges of feminism, made keenly aware of his heterosexism and his privilege, feeling psycho-analyzed and pilloried and scrutinized to a fare-thee-well, how should he handle his anxiety? 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. Male Matters is not only theory but theory out of and as literature and philosophy. This wise and quirky, sophisticated and coarse, serious and hilarious look at male identity and creativity and dislocation at the end of the twentieth century will not assuage male anxiety and may, in fact, produce more. But therein lies the way of the productive male, yielding to (rather than attempting to master) language as a bodily function.
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: pbk ISBN 9780252065002

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      Calvin Thomas's Male Matters         reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process         that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Wise and quirky, sophisticated         and coarse, serious and hilarious, this look at male identity and creativity         and dislocation at the end of the twentieth century definitely will not         assuage male anxiety!       "An excellent and important         book. . . . By mixing high and low, by speaking candidly about what we         usually keep in the (water) closet, while simultaneously engaging the         'highest' philosophies of language and culture, Thomas calls the entire         enterprise of criticism into question." -- Jeremy Earp, Journal         of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity       "A brave, indispensable         exercise in writing the male body, and a tour de force of theoretically         informed close reading." -- Kevin Floyd, Journal of the Midwest         Modern Language Association       "Both analyzes and performs         our anxieties about masculinity. . . . This experiment in criticism transgresses         boundaries of theory, gender, and academic taste in ways sure to delight         and infuriate its readers." -- Gregory Jay, author of America         the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History       "Calvin Thomas is able         to hint at a way out of the prison-house, as he puts it, of straight male         identity." -- Kathy Acker, author of In Memoriam to Identity  

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