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Parts of an andrology : on representations of men's bodies
- Title
- Parts of an andrology : on representations of men's bodies / Lawrence R. Schehr.
- Author
- Schehr, Lawrence R.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.
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- Description
- viii, 230 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index.
- ISBN
- 0804729190 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804729204 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96049744
- OCLC
- ocm36008549
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries