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oapen-20.500.12657-255702022-07-21T07:50:19Z The Penetrated Male Kemp, Jonathan masculinity queer theory gender studies sexuality gay life bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSK Gay & Lesbian studies Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber’s Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the genderisation of its representation, The Penetrated Male offers new understandings of passivity, suggesting that the modern masculine subject is predicated on a penetrability it must always disavow. Arguing that representation is the embodiment of erotic thought, it is an important contribution to queer theory and our understandings of gendered bodies. 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:43:39Z 2020-04-01T10:43:39Z 2013 book 1004525 OCN: 945782731 9780615870861 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25570 eng application/pdf n/a 1004525.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0047.1.00 10.21983/P3.0047.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9780615870861 ScholarLed 250 Brooklyn, NY open access
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Through nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire, Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber’s Memoirs), this book explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body, developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination and fear. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the genderisation of its representation, The Penetrated Male offers new understandings of passivity, suggesting that the modern masculine subject is predicated on a penetrability it must always disavow. Arguing that representation is the embodiment of erotic thought, it is an important contribution to queer theory and our understandings of gendered bodies.
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