This book is about body outlaws, operating in the interzone between the cold seduction of the hysterical male and the beginning of that new horizon called "the last sex."
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From Publishers Weekly
Arthur and Marilouise Kroker ( The Hysterical Male ) conclude their feminist-theory trilogy with 18 works grouped around the theme of the human body. Careening through leftist academic thought and street-tough life experience, it will appeal mainly to those whose White European Male gurus of choice are Marx, Derrida and Foucault and who believe that "cultural fascism" is the undisputed province of conservatives. Kathy Acker contemplates her experience of bodybuilding as an act that resists verbal language and yet constitutes a "language of the body." Dianne Rothleder considers human reproduction as the fruit of capitalism, and finds that capital is like a virus: both "latch onto living beings, penetrate them, and colonize them." Shannon Bell interviews a "cross-gendered performance" instructor, a transsexual whose goal is "deconstructing gender" and who blithely accepts inequality: "at the bottom of anyone's transgender heap is the closet case who puts on his wife's panties when she is away." Carel Rowe offers an effective reading of Peter Greenaway's films, concluding that although female characters are humiliated, they "learn more, develop more and, ultimately, prevail" over men. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Arthur Kroker is the director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, and Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture, and Theory at the University of Victoria.
Marilouise Kroker is senior research scholar in the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the University of Victoria. She is co-editor of the electronic peer-reviewed journal Ctheory.
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