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 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025206500X
• ISBN13: 9780252065002
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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.