The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: The English Phallus - Rilegato

King, Thomas A.

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ISBN 10: 0299197808 ISBN 13: 9780299197803

Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Taking on nothing less than the formation of modern genders and sexualities, Thomas A. King develops a history of the political and performative struggles that produced both normative and queer masculinities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The result is a major contribution to gender studies, gay studies, and theater and performance history.
The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750 traces the transition from a society based on alliance, which had subordinated all men, women, and boys to higher ranked males, to one founded in sexuality, through which men have embodied their claims to personal and political privacy. King proposes that the male body is a performative production marking men’s resistance to their subjection within patriarchy and sovereignty. Emphasizing that categories of gender must come under historical analysis, The Gendering of Men explores men’s particpation in an ongoing struggle for access to a universal manliness transcending other biological and social differentials.

This is volume one of two projected volumes.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Thomas A. King is associate professor of English at Brandeis University, where he teaches early modern and eighteenth-century studies, gender and queer studies, and performance studies. Prior to his teaching career, King worked as an A.E.A. stage manager in Chicago. He has published articles on Restoration and eighteenth-century theater history, gender and sexuality, and gay men’s camp. Forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press is The Gendering of Men, 1600–1750: Queer Articulations, the second volume of this study. King lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0299197808
• ISBN 13: 9780299197803
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 370