Engendering Men : The Question of Male Feminist Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780415523295 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 344 str.

Joseph A. Boone; Michael Cadden

Opis

Over the past several years, the question of men's relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics. In the wake of feminism, many men have found it imperative to begin the task of retheorizing the male position in our culture. This collection of new essays brings together seventeen male critics whose work - on poetry, fiction, the Broadway stage, film and television, and broader cultural and psychoanalytic texts - is opening up new avenues in criticism, as well as in gender and feminist theory.

Spis treści

Editors’ Introduction  Part 1: Men, Feminism and Critical Institutions  1. Of Men(n) and Feminism: Who(se) Is the Sex That Writes  2. Engendering F.O.M.: The Private Life of American Renaissance  3. Redeeming the Phallus: Wallace Stevens, Frank Lentricchia, and the Politics of (Hetero)Sexuality  4. "The Lady Was a Litle Pereurse": The Gender of Persuasion in Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesie  5. Dicipl(in)ing the Master, Mastering the Discipl(in)e: Erotonomies in James’ Tales of Literary Life  Part 2: Power, Panic, and Pathos in Male Culture  6. Cowboys, Cadillacs, and Cosmonauts: Families, Film Genres, and Technocultures  7. "Meat Out of the Eater": Panic and Desire in American Puritan Poetry  8. Hester Prynne, C’est Moi: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Anxieties of Gender  9. The Love-Master  Part 3: Cleaning Out the Closet(s)  10. Are We (Not) What We Are Becoming? "Gay" "Identity," "Gay Studies," and the Disciplining of Knowledge  11. Wilde’s Hard Labor and the Birth of Gay Reading  12. Homo-Narcissism; or, Heterosexuality  13. Rebel Without a Closet  Part 4: Revolutionary Alliances: Call and Response Across Gender  14. Caged Birds: Race and Gender in the Sonnet  15. Homelessness at Home: Placing Emily Dickinson in (Women’s) History  16. Celibate Sisters-in-Revolution: Towards Reading Sylvia Townsend  17. (In)Visible Alliances: Conflicting "Chronicles" of Feminism

O autorze

Joseph A. Boone (University of Southern California, LA, USA), Michael Cadden