The contemporary straight white male finds himself, if he finds himself at all, in dilemmas too numerous to mention. Torn between the just charges of feminism, made keenly aware of his heterosexism and his privilege, feeling psycho-analyzed and pilloried and scrutinized to a fare-thee-well, how should he handle his anxiety? According to Calvin Thomas, maybe he shouldn't. Maybe he should embrace his abjection - his cast-off, humiliated, and discounted status - as a way of renegotiating his identity and of interrupting the historical displacement of that status onto the feminine, or the marginalized other. This embrace of abjection, says Thomas, begins as a confrontation with the issue of the male body. The straight man, unfamiliar and unfriendly and uncomfortable with his body - the excretory, urinary, and seminal aspects of his body in particular - will find that Thomas's Male Matters explores the complicated relationships between masculinity and the male body, revealing the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Male Matters is not only theory but theory out of and as literature and philosophy. This wise and quirky, sophisticated and coarse, serious and hilarious look at male identity and creativity and dislocation at the end of the twentieth century will not assuage male anxiety and may, in fact, produce more. But therein lies the way of the productive male, yielding to (rather than attempting to master) language as a bodily function.

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

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Thomas, Calvin

Psychology & Counseling

University of Illinois Press

      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  

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An Anthology Of German Literature

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Kessinger Publishing

A German Reader And Theme-Book

Hervey, William Addison

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

In "The Long Road from Slavery to Mental Illness", Calvin Thomas examines every aspect of Black life—from media images of Blacks, to civil rights legislation, including the issue of reparations. He describes in great detail how all aspects of White society work towards increasing the sense of disconnection every Black person feels from the society around him, and the distance between his image of himself and White images of him. Prominent Black figures-from Michael Jackson to Kobe Bryant, from O. J. Simpson to Condoleeza Rice, play a part in this compelling social commentary. No socially responsible individual, Black or White, can afford to miss this groundbreaking glimpse into the appalling state of race relations in the United States.

The Long Road from Slavery to Mental Illness: White Fear + Racist + Racism + White Supremacy = Black Mental Illness

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Milligan Books

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An Anthology of German Literature

Literary

BiblioLife

History

Europe

Report of the Committee of Twelve of Mordern Language Association of America

<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

Americas

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Goethes Faust

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

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

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

An Anthology Of German Literature

A German Reader And Theme-Book

The Long Road from Slavery to Mental Illness: White Fear + Racist + Racism + White Supremacy = Black Mental Illness

An Anthology of German Literature

An Anthology of German Literature

Report of the Committee of Twelve of Mordern Language Association of America

Report of the Committee of Twelve of Mordern Language Association of America

Goethes Faust