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... and Rose Jacqueline . Trans. Rose Jacqueline New York : Norton , 1982 . Lehman Peter . “ In the Realm of the Senses: Desire, Power and the Representation of the Male Body .” Genders 2 ( Summer 1988 ): 91 - 110 . Lyotard Jean Francois . “ Can Thought Go On without...

... question. Given, as we’ve postulated, that man constructed language and logos in this way as a system to support his thought and being against the real, and given that language and logos, as Irigaray argues, have instead produced a male creature utterly alienated from himself and his world, and given...

... . Silverman Kaja . Male Subjectivity at the Margins . New York : Routledge , 1992 . Whalen Robert . Bitter Wounds: German Victims of the Great War, 1914–1939 . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1984 . ROXANNE PANCHASI Reconstructions: Prosthetics and the Rehabilitation of the Male Body in World...

... of The Scarlet Letter .” Ideology and Classic American Literature . Ed. Bercovitch Sacvan and Jehlen Myra . Cambridge : Cambridge UP . 1986 . 247 - 66 . Barker-Benfield G. J. The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America...

... ): 62 – 93 . Haraway Donna . “ A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century .” Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature . New York : Routledge , 1991 . Response Revisiting Male Thanatica ROSI BRAIDOTTI Ienjoyed Trevor Hope's...

..., Susan. “Reading the Male Body.” Michigan Quarterly Review 32.4 (Fall 1993 ): 696 –737. Brodhead, Richard. “Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America.” Representations 21 (Winter 1988 ): 67 –96. Brown, Herbert Ross. The Sentimental Novel in America,1789–1860 . Durham...

...Rebecca Wanzo This essay is an attempt to work through the nature of the cultural injury produced by the African American male celebrity—an injury that is frequently enacted as intimate violence—and to hypothesize why public accusations of such injuries so often affectively challenge black subjects...

... for the subject to be acted upon. Seeking to disrupt the presumptive equivalence between masculine subjectivity and knowledge/power, the author turns to Lycaeneion’s education of Daphnis as a case study in male subject formation. Here, knowledge functions as a force of immobilization rather than empowerment...

...Richard Rambuss This essay reflects on Bersani’s sexually explicit, homosexually specific writings about sex from the vantage of sexual positioning, which can itself be thought of as complexly gendered, corporeally and psychically. Whereas gay male sex in the missionary position is the centerpiece...

... of transgender representations in early modern China. Li Yu’s works demonstrate that the representation and performance of ambiguous or trans genders was linked to elite male consumption: that is, transgressive gender presentations were a prime form of entertainment, in fiction as in theater. However, his...

... “whiteness,” this essay asks whether a male-authored work, which contains no black characters of consequence, is nevertheless fair game for a black feminist reading. What happens to the text of the white male “other” when it is read through the lens of black feminist theory? Brown University...

..., the essay argues that Hugo’s highly gendered language helped transform the episode from a man/animal encounter into the ravishing of the male protagonist by an assertive female. This reading is supported by an examination of the terrified reactions of contemporary readers and by looking at the cultural...

...Vered Lev Kenaan What does it mean to have a feminine voice in a literary world dominated by male authors? What would it mean for the contemporary reader of ancient and medieval texts to be responsive to the distinctiveness of the feminine voice? This article addresses these questions by focusing...

... that despite the tenacity of male governance, female in-laws wield tremendous power in the rites that widows deem discriminatory. While interlocutors in this essay stress the near impossibility of a widow escaping the tentacles of authority and the empathy deficit stemming from it, others who have resisted...

... for the office of president of the United States. Challenging the practical application of theoretical claims of race as a social construction, “Can’t You See I’m White?” explores the ways in which their racial and gender “difference” from the typical roster of white males seeking the presidency has made some...

... of allegory from the male perspective of Charles Baudelaire, this essay initiates the possibility of a feminine melancholy and a feminine allegory. This melancholic feminine allegory reveals a new conception of time and a new focus on aural perception, the eternal return, and the resounding cry of trauma...

...Sonali Perera According to a corpus of representative texts and standard minimal Marxist definitions, the “proletariat” of proletarian literature is, by definition, revolutionary, and by implication, male; this is the specific subset of the working class entrusted with the historic mission...

... of the feminine—through the appropriation of feminine capacities and qualities for themselves. This appropriation ultimately expresses these men's fear of the erosion of male power and the coherence of distinct gender categories that I call a “queer fear of the feminine.” However, this is neither a sign...

...Lisa Guenther Irigaray's early work seeks to multiply possibilities for women's self-expression by recovering a sexual difference in which male and female are neither the same nor opposites, but irreducibly different modes of embodiment. In her more recent work, however, Irigaray has emphasized...

... that to face the contorted body of another subject laughing is to face the uneasy reality of encounter. Analyzing three iterations of Nude Laughing across geographic locales, the essay focuses in particular on a performance in Mexico City that culminated in an act of male aggression. The author reads...