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The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: Volume 2, Queer Articulations
Thomas A. King
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Description for The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: Volume 2, Queer Articulations
Hardcover. Num Pages: 536 pages, 47 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFC; JFSJ2; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 46. Weight in Grams: 907.
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 that the Anglo-American queer body publicizes a history of resistance to the gendered terms whereby liberal subjectivities were secured in early modern England.
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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 that the Anglo-American queer body publicizes a history of resistance to the gendered terms whereby liberal subjectivities were secured in early modern England.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299226206
SKU
V9780299226206
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About Thomas A. King
Thomas A. King is associate professor of English at Brandeis University, where he teaches early modern and eighteenth-century studies, gender and queer studies, and performance studies. Prior to his teaching career, King worked as an A.E.A. stage manager in Chicago. He is the author of volume one of The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: Volume 1, The English Phallus, also published ... Read more
Reviews for The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750: Volume 2, Queer Articulations
Queer Articulations is sure to become the standard work on perceptions of eighteenth-century sexuality and masculinity. - Hans Turley, University of Connecticut 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 ... Read more