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Chargement... The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Privatepar Susan Bordo
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Male bodies in popular culture, especially visual culture. It's commendable that Bordo keeps her primary relation to the male body (love both familial and sexual) in the foreground, but her awed rhapsodizing on the nature of the embodied penis gets really tiring, a little embarrassing, and frustratingly heteronormative. The writing is distinctly aimed at the bestseller crowd, which makes a usually academic topic (gender and embodiment) frankly readable, though she sacrifices nuance to achieve it. The non linear relation between male bodies and masculine identities floats away into an overarching historical narrative where men have become more sexualized while, paradoxically, resisting that vulnerable flavor of objectification visited upon women. I'm probably being a bit harsh, but my final feeling after finishing it, my sense of "the takeaway" is that over here exist men who have men's bodies and, thus, masculine identities, and over there exist women who can relate to all that by loving it, fucking it, or fruitlessly coveting or aping it, but women must of course remain estranged and exotic from its source: dicks. P.S. The spine of the book is a ruler. That pretty much sums up the "saucy" garbage that coats the interesting stuff. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In this surprising, candid cultural analysis, Susan Bordo begins with a frank, tender look at her own father's body and goes on to perceptively scrutinize the presentation of maleness in everyday life.Men's (and women's) ideas about men's bodies are heavily influenced by society's expectations, and Bordo helps us understand where those ideas come from. In chapters on the penis (in all its incarnations), fifties Hollywood, male beauty standards, and sexual harassment, and in discussions of topics ranging from Marlon Brando and Boogie Nights to Philip Roth and Lady Chatterley's Lover, Bordo offers fresh and unexpected insights. Always -- whether she is examining Michael Jordan or Humbert Humbert, the butch phallus or her own grade-school experiences -- she rejects rigid categories in favor of an honest, nuanced version of men as flesh-and-blood human beings. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I did not know Marlon Brando, the first self-consciously sexual, male sex symbol, wet his jeans and then let them dry while he was wearing them so they would be extra tight. I learned lots of fun facts like that. ( )