Christopher E. Forth
Auteur de Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
A propos de l'auteur
Christopher E. Forth is a senior lecturer in history at the Australian National University.
Œuvres de Christopher E. Forth
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political… (2004) 8 exemplaires
Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France: Bodies, Minds and Gender (Genders and Sexualities in History) (2009) 7 exemplaires
Body parts : critical explorations in corporeality (2005) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 64
- Popularité
- #264,968
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 18
That said, this book sort of lacks a thesis [my main critique]. Now that's perfectly okay if you are wanting to read on the history of western acts of masculinity, but in the context of gender theory (something Forth's book flirts with), there isn't much ground broken. This isn't something "bad," just "un-good."
I do think this is a good read, but either in the framing of the book or of the presentation of the book to me, I felt that it aligned itself with too much normative theory, which it doesn't follow up upon. Four stars if that promise was never made. Three if it was. Three-point-five it is.… (plus d'informations)