The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private Contributor(s): Bordo, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374527326 ISBN-13: 9780374527327 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2000 Annotation: In this surprising and candid cultural analysis of men in public and private life, Bordo begins with a frank and tender look at her own father's body and goes on to perceptively scrutinize the presentation of maleness in everyday life. 45 photos throughout. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Men's Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Dewey: 305.31 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.75 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An exciting new popular study of the male body--fresh, honest, and full of revelations In this surprising, candid cultural analysis, Susan Bordo begins with a frank, tender look at her own father's body and goes on to perceptively scrutinize the presentation of maleness in everyday life. Men's (and women's) ideas about men's bodies are heavily influenced by society's expectations, and Bordo helps us understand where those ideas come from. In chapters on the penis (in all its incarnations), fifties Hollywood, male beauty standards, and sexual harassment, and in discussions of topics ranging from Marlon Brando and Boogie Nights to Philip Roth and Lady Chatterley's Lover, Bordo offers fresh and unexpected insights. Always--whether she is examining Michael Jordan or Humbert Humbert, the butch phallus or her own grade-school experiences--she rejects rigid categories in favor of an honest, nuanced version of men as flesh-and-blood human beings. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bordo, Susan: - Susan Bordo holds the Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, where she is also a professor of English and women's studies. She has written several books, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Unbearable Weight. |