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Title The male body : features, destinies, exposures / Laurence Goldstein, editor
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description xiv, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction / Laurence Goldstein -- Alien Territory / Margaret Atwood -- The Disposable Rocket / John Updike -- Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832-1920 / Michael S. Kimmel -- Bodybuilder Americanus / Sam Fussell -- The Lost Child (fiction) / Joyce Carol Oates -- Rock Incorporated: Plugging in to Axl and Bruce / Fred Pfeil -- For My Son Gabriel Who Must One Day Become a Man / Ruth Behar -- Thirteen (poetry) / Alan Soldofsky -- If It Was You Instead of Me (fiction) / Brad Sewell -- The Sports Complex (poetry) / Laurence Goldstein -- A Phenomenology of the Black Body / Charles Johnson -- Dress-Me-Up David (poetry) / Christianne Balk -- Injury (poetry) / Nicholas Samaras -- On the Nature of Desire (poetry) / David Lehman -- Pressure (poetry) / Evelyn Lau -- To Be Horst (fiction) / Mitch Berman -- A God's Perfection / Rudolf Arnheim -- The Male Body and Contemporary Art / Andrew Campbell and Nathan Griffith
Tiresias and Narcissus (from Ovid's Metamorphoses) (poetry) / David R. Slavitt -- In My Fifties / Leo Braudy -- Portrait of My Body / Phillip Lopate -- Male Nipples (poetry) / Brenda Hillman -- Vasectomy (poetry) / Cathy Song -- Blessings on the Stomach, the Body's Inner Furnace (poetry) / Robert Bly -- Old Acquaintance (poetry) / Edward Field -- All Together Now: The New Sexual Politics of Midlife Bodies / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- Inbetween Zone: Life in Neukolln (fiction) / Mario Wirz -- Reading the Male Body / Susan Bordo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Human body in literature.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Masculinity.
Men in literature.
Author Goldstein, Laurence, 1943-
LC no. 94024555
ISBN 0472065971 (paperback: alk. paper)
0472095978 (alk. paper)