The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter

1. Returning to Matter: Critical Perspectives on Representations of the Male Body.- 2. Brother to Brother: A Rereading of Black Masculinities in Embodied Performance.- 3. 'You're a Real Man After All': Fashioning the Male Physique in Twentieth-Century Boxing and Wrestling Magazines.- 4. Basil Dearden's Violent Playground (1958): Masculinity, Class, and Sentimental Politics.- 5. Refashioning the Male Body: Contemporary Media Representations of the Spornosexual and the Waif.- 6. English Dandies and French Lions: Policing the Male Body in Popular Print and Visual Culture between 1815 and 1848.- 7. Stiliagi Masculinity and the Re-Fashioning of the Male Body in the Soviet Union (1948-1958).- 8. Claiming the Fl?neur's Body: Cross-Dressing Women, Autobiographical Self-Fashioning, and the Pleasures of Passing and Not Passing as a Man on the Street.- 9. Jake and Ellen in Transition: On Clarissa Sligh's Mutable Bodies.- 10. "A Most Unlikely Hero" Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels.- 11. Of Cyborgs, Aliens, and Tricksters: Posthumanist Perspectives on the Male Body in Caribbean Speculative Literature.- 12. Fashionable Men in Skin-Tight Pants: Shifts in Body Images and Concepts of Masculinity in the History of Men's Legwear.- 13. "Isn't it pretty to think so?" - Disability and the Queering of Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.- 14. Rereading the Male Body: The Cultural Power of Representation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030886034
• ISBN13: 9783030886035
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"