This international and multidisciplinary volume focuses on the male body and constructions of gender in a variety of cultural productions and formats. Locating the subject matter in relevant theoretical fields, it looks at representations of male bodies in various contexts through paranoid and reparative lenses. Organized into four major sections, the contributions assembled in this book feature engaging readings of non/conforming bodies, fashionable bodies, passing bodies, and pioneering bodies that to different degrees foreground their critical and creative potentials. In its full scope, the book acknowledges the plurality of gendered experiences and the diversity of male bodies. The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter adds to Cultural Studies scholarship interested in the body and gender in general and contributes to the fields of Masculinity and Body Studies in particular.
1. Returning to Matter: Critical Perspectives on Representations of the
Male Body.-
2. Brother to Brother: A Rereading of Black Masculinities in
Embodied Performance.-
3. Youre a Real Man After All: Fashioning the Male
Physique in Twentieth-Century Boxing and Wrestling Magazines.-
4. Basil
Deardens Violent Playground (1958): Masculinity, Class, and Sentimental
Politics.-
5. Refashioning the Male Body: Contemporary Media Representations
of the Spornosexual and the Waif.-
6. English Dandies and French Lions:
Policing the Male Body in Popular Print and Visual Culture between 1815 and
1848.-
7. Stiliagi Masculinity and the Re-Fashioning of the Male Body in the
Soviet Union (19481958).-
8. Claiming the Flāneurs Body: Cross-Dressing
Women, Autobiographical Self-Fashioning, and the Pleasures of Passing and Not
Passing as a Man on the Street.-
9. Jake and Ellen in Transition: On Clarissa
Slighs Mutable Bodies.-
10. A Most Unlikely Hero: Disability, Masculinity,
and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels.-
11. Of Cyborgs, Aliens, and
Tricksters: Posthumanist Perspectives on the Male Body in Caribbean
Speculative Literature.-
12. Fashionable Men in Skin-Tight Pants: Shifts in
Body Images and Concepts of Masculinity in the History of Mens Legwear.-
13.
Isnt it pretty to think so? Disability and the Queering of Masculinity
in Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises and D.H. Lawrences Lady
Chatterleys Lover.-
14. Rereading the Male Body: The Cultural Power of
Representation.
Carmen Dexl is an assistant professor in American Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where she is currently working on her second book project in the fields of Performance Studies, Age Studies, and Body Studies.
Silvia Gerlsbeck is a research associate in English Literature and Culture at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her dissertation examines negotiations of authorship and masculinity in Caribbean British literature.
