Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line

By Calvin Thomas

Book Overview

Calvin Thomas's Male Matters reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Wise and quirky, sophisticated and coarse, serious and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252022025
• ISBN13: 9780252022029
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Thomas Cuts Open the Masculine Constitution

Calvin Thomas doesn't gloss over the anxieties of men at the end of the 20th century, rather, I think he gets to the roots of those anxieties and even suggests them as an identity for men. His introspection digs to the heart of what it is that is troubling: what are men, and what have men constructed? Thomas' book is a thrilling trip into the sometimes silly, often destructive and dangerous masculine mindset. I strongly recommend this text for men who are willing to explore their own discomfort with honesty and confront the fears and fictions they've created for themselves.