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The Hysterical Male

New Feminist Theory

  • Editors
  • Arthur Kroker
  • Marilouise Kroker
Textbook

Part of the Culture Texts book series (CULTTX)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Sacrificial Sex

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Three Sisters of Tanya Mars
      Elke Town
      Pages 3-12
    3. Big Jugs
      Jennifer Bloomer
      Pages 13-27
    4. A Ghost Story
      Avery Gordon
      Pages 28-48
    5. Behind Master Mind up on Time Misprisoners Once Escape Literature
      Charles Noble
      Pages 49-54

  3. Mirror of Seduction

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 55-56
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    2. The Confession Mirror: Plastic Images for Surgery
      Carole Spitzack
      Pages 57-68
    3. Blondes
      Teresa Podlesney
      Pages 69-92
    4. Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers
      Angela Miles
      Pages 93-131
    5. Spatial Envy Yvonne Rainer’s The Man Who Envied Women
      Peggy Phelan
      Pages 132-145

  4. Phallus of Malice

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 147-148
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    2. Parading the Masculine: Figures, Decoys and Other Canards
      Chris Tysh
      Pages 149-154
    3. Feminist Ejaculations
      Shannon Bell
      Pages 155-170
    4. The Fetish in Sex, Lies & Videotape: Whither the Phallus?
      Berkeley Kaite
      Pages 171-186
    5. My First Confession
      Stephen Pfohl
      Pages 187-187
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    6. Simulations
      Andrew Haase
      Pages 188-208

  5. Daddy’s No

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 209-211
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    2. The Phallic Mother: Platonic Metaphysics of Lacan’s Imaginary
      Lorraine Gauthier
      Pages 212-234
    3. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Feminist Metatheory
      Charles Levin
      Pages 235-252
    4. This is not a President: Baudrillard, Bush and Enchanted Simulation
      Diane Rubenstein
      Pages 253-267
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 268-272
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About this book

Introduction

The Hysterical Male is designed as a thematically focussed exploration of gender politics in the 1990s. Initiated as a companion volume to Body Invaders it provides an intense, provocative and creative theorization of feminism under the failing sign of male hystericization.

Keywords

gender Plato politics seduction women

Bibliographic information