In her provocative new book, Kaja Silverman offers a bold new look at some masculinities which deviate from the social norm. Male Subjectivity at the Margins brilliantly reads male filmmakers, novelists and literary cinematic characters who position themselves more as "women" than as "men" and in so doing surrender male power and privilege. Silverman writes about male masochism, homosexuality, exhibitionism from a sympathetic point of view, arguing that these so-called "perversions" can be better undrstood from a political perspective rather than a moral one. In fact Male Subjectivity at the Margins maintains that their practitioners represent, at least potentially, allies for feminism. Silverman pursues her argument through a range of literary and cinematic texts, including Wiliam Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives , the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the novels of Henry James, T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom , and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past .
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Twenty-two years since the French publication of Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge, which can be retrospectively seen to have effected a kind of epistemological "break" with the Althusserian tradition, the word "ideology" may seem to exude the stale aroma of a theoritical anachronism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reflexive masochism, kissing organ, unconscious fantasmatic, authorial fantasmatic, dominant fiction, phallic divestiture, geometral point, imaginary alignment, fantasizing subject, demonstrative feature, sadistic position, castration crisis, beating fantasy, moral masochist, libidinal politics, moral masochism, double mimesis, identificatory relation, feminine masochism, authorial subjectivity, male masochist, biographical author, phallic identification, male masochism, soul enclosed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seven Pillars, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Wonderful Life, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Mint, Year of Thirteen Moons, Arab Revolt, The Awkward Age, Three Essays, The Guilt of Janet Ames, World War, Four Fundamental Concepts, Law of Language, Bedford Falls, Franz Biberkopf, Fear Eats the Soul, Middle East, Boone City, Gods of the Plague, Peter Bailey, Law of Kinship Structure, Leo Bersani, Turkish Bey, The Economic Problem of Masochism, George Bailey New!
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Twenty-two years since the French publication of Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge, which can be retrospectively seen to have effected a kind of epistemological "break" with the Althusserian tradition, the word "ideology" may seem to exude the stale aroma of a theoritical anachronism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reflexive masochism, kissing organ, unconscious fantasmatic, authorial fantasmatic, dominant fiction, phallic divestiture, geometral point, imaginary alignment, fantasizing subject, demonstrative feature, sadistic position, castration crisis, beating fantasy, moral masochist, libidinal politics, moral masochism, double mimesis, identificatory relation, feminine masochism, authorial subjectivity, male masochist, biographical author, phallic identification, male masochism, soul enclosed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seven Pillars, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Wonderful Life, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Mint, Year of Thirteen Moons, Arab Revolt, The Awkward Age, Three Essays, The Guilt of Janet Ames, World War, Four Fundamental Concepts, Law of Language, Bedford Falls, Franz Biberkopf, Fear Eats the Soul, Middle East, Boone City, Gods of the Plague, Peter Bailey, Law of Kinship Structure, Leo Bersani, Turkish Bey, The Economic Problem of Masochism, George Bailey New!
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- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud on 10 pages
- The Awkward Age (Penguin Classics) by Henry James on 9 pages
- Masochism in sex and society by Theodor Reik on 8 pages
- Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays by Louis Althusser on 7 pages
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T E Lawrence on 6 pages
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- Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory by Judith Kegan Gardiner on 6 pages
- Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War by Sarah Cole on 5 pages
- Constructing Masculinity (Discussion in Contemporary Culture) by Maurice Berger on 5 pages
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- Regenerative Fictions: Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis, and the Nation as Family by Alexandra Schultheis on 4 pages
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