Masochism: The Art of Power

by Nick Mansfield

How does the male masochist provide a metaphor for modern and postmodern power? Through a study of the representations of masochism in literature, psychopathology, philosophy, and cultural theory, Mansfield challenges our fundamental assumptions about masculine power in the postmodern era, arguing that masculine power has become masochistic. In the later twentieth century, the author argues, power presents itself as powerlessness but this deconstruction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275957020
• ISBN13: 9780275957025
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.6"