Overview
- Adds to cultural studies scholarship interested in the body and gender
- Acknowledges the plurality of gendered experiences and the diversity of male bodies
- Focuses on the male body and constructions of gender in a variety of cultural productions and formats
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender (PSRG)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Non/Conforming Bodies
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Front Matter
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Fashionable Bodies
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Front Matter
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Passing Bodies
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Front Matter
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Pioneering Bodies?
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Male Body in Representation
Book Subtitle: Returning to Matter
Editors: Carmen Dexl, Silvia Gerlsbeck
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88604-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88603-5Published: 22 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88606-6Published: 23 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88604-2Published: 21 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-9364
Series E-ISSN: 2662-9372
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 325
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Global/International Culture