The Penetrated Male. /

Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber's Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kemp, Jonathan, 1967- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	Software eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	punctum Books 2013.
Subjects:	Human body. Sexual orientation > History. Masculinity > Social aspects. Sexual minorities > Social aspects. Corps humain. Orientation sexuelle > Histoire. Masculinité > Aspect social. Minorités sexuelles > Aspect social. Gay & Lesbian studies. Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian Gay men. Gay men > Social life and customs. Baudelaire, gender, James Joyce, Jean Genet, masculinity, Oscar Wilde, queer studies, sexuality Electronic books. History.
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Summary:	Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber's Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the genderisation of its representation, The Penetrated Male offers new understandings of passivity, suggesting that the modern masculine subject is predicated on a penetrability it must always disavow. Arguing that representation is the embodiment of erotic thought, it is an important contribution to queer theory and our understandings of gendered bodies.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (iv, 240 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780615870861 0615870864