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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sally Robinson |
| ISBN: | 0231112920 9780231112925 0231112939 9780231112932 |
| OCLC Number: | 43561702 |
| Description: | x, 271 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Visibility, Crisis, and the Wounded White Male Body -- Marking Men, Embodying America: John Updike and the Reconstruction of Middle American Masculinity -- The "Discovery" of Middle America and the Marking of White Masculinity -- Rabbit Redux: Black Power, the Counterculture, and the Decentering of White Masculinity -- Rabbit Is Rich: Feminism, the Third World, and the Screwing of White Masculinity -- Coda: The Death of White Masculinity? -- Pale Males, Dead Poets, and the Crisis in White Masculinity: Scenes from the Culture wars -- Spectacles of (Dis)Embodiment -- American Minds and American Bodies: Reproducing Elitism -- Dead Poets and the Pathos of Wounded White Masculinity -- Traumas of Embodiment: White Male Authorship in Crisis -- The "Myth of Male Inviolability": Somatic Disintegration in Philip Roth's My Life as a Man -- Rapists, Feminists, and The World According to Garp: Inauthentic versus Authentic Traumas -- "Exercising Editorial Authority Over His Body": The Crippling of Body and Text in Stephen King's Misery -- Masculinity as Emotional Constipation: Men's Liberation and the Wounds of Patriarchal Power -- The Hazards of Being Male -- The Wisdom of the Penis -- The Embarrassments of Emotional Incontinence -- Expression, Repression, and Male Hysteria: Marked men and the Wounds of a Dammed Masculinity -- Men's Liberation Redux: Sexuality, Evolution, and the Embodied Struggle Between Blockage and Release -- Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don't: Deliverance and the Hysterical Male Body. |
| Responsibility: | Sally Robinson. |
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Marked Men: White Masculinity in Crisis is an intelligent, wide-ranging, clearly argued and thoroughly femnist book about the shifting meanings of dominant masculinity in American culture...Robinson makes appropriate but not heavy-handed use of other theorists and literary critics, often developing their insights in original directions...Robinson is an astute critic of cultural images. -- Judith Kegan Gardiner The Women's Review of Books White men have it all, except the hardship of having to live in a world dominated by white men. Sally Robinson argues, with shocking originality... that they now want that too: Through victimization, we find the tensions that make us most alive. -- Jonathon Keats San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle Book Review Read more...
