num_pages: 264
description:       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 hilarious, this look at male identity and creativity        and dislocation at the end of the twentieth century definitely will not        assuage male anxiety!      "An excellent and important        book. . . . By mixing high and low, by speaking candidly about what we        usually keep in the (water) closet, while simultaneously engaging the        'highest' philosophies of language and culture, Thomas calls the entire        enterprise of criticism into question." -- Jeremy Earp, Journal        of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity      "A brave, indispensable        exercise in writing the male body, and a tour de force of theoretically        informed close reading." -- Kevin Floyd, Journal of the Midwest        Modern Language Association      "Both analyzes and performs        our anxieties about masculinity. . . . This experiment in criticism transgresses        boundaries of theory, gender, and academic taste in ways sure to delight        and infuriate its readers." -- Gregory Jay, author of America        the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History      "Calvin Thomas is able        to hint at a way out of the prison-house, as he puts it, of straight male        identity." -- Kathy Acker, author of In Memoriam to Identity 
language: English
title: Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line
titlecomplete: Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line
ratings_count: 7
publisher: University of Illinois Press