The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: Volume 2, Queer Articulations Volume 2

by Thomas A. King

The queer man's mode of embodiment--his gestural and vocal style, his posture and gait, his occupation of space--remembers a political history. To gesture with the elbow held close to the body, to affect a courtly lisp, or to set an arm akimbo with the hand turned back on the hip is to cite a history in which the sovereign body became the effeminate and sodomitical and, finally, the homosexual body. In Queer Articulations, Thomas A. King argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299226204
• ISBN13: 9780299226206
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 583 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.8" x 9.1"