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Belsey, C. and J. Moore, Eds. (1997). Building Bodies. New Brunswick,
New Jersey, and London, Rutgers University Press.
Building Bodies is an arresting collection of articles that construct theoretical models in which power, bodies, discourse, and subjectivity interact in a space we can call the "built" body, a dynamic, politicized, and biological site. Contributors discuss the complex relationship between body building and masculinity, between the built body and the racialized body, representations of female body builders in print and in film, and homoeroticism in body building. Linked by their focus on the sport and practice of body building, the authors in this volume challenge both the way their various disciplines (media studies, literary criticism, gender studies, film and sociology) have gone about studying bodies, and existing assumptions about the complex relationship between power, subjectivity, society, and the flesh. Body building - in practice, in representation, and in the cultural imagination - serves as an launching point because the sport and practice provide ready challenges to existing assumptions regarding what constitutes the "built" body.
Brand, P. Z., Ed. (2000). Beauty Matters. Bloomington and Indianapolis,
Indiana University Press.
Beauty Matters brings together a compilation of academic, accessible texts that examine how gender, race and sexual orientation have informed the concept of beauty and we are driven to pursue it. The articles are largely based on the worlds of fashion, film and art. Contemporary views judge beauty by moral attitudes and scientific knowledge. Beauty Matters contrasts this with the theories of the eighteenth century philosopher Immanuel Kant, who held that the beauty is solely based on one`s direct, personal response. Whatever the case, defining beauty remains a daunting challenge, one now overshadowed by issues of political correctness. Of particular interest for gay male readers is Susan Bordo's article on the modern use of male imagery. Originally titled 'Gay Men`s Revenge', here renamed 'Beauty (Re)Discovers the Male Body', Bordo pontificates on Calvin Klein adverts and the objectification of male models. She sees Klein`s use of men in his adverts as a culmination of an aesthetic style pursued throughout the twentieth century by several photographers, such as George Platt Lynes and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Enloe, C. (2000). Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing
Women's Lives. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California
Press.
Maneuvers takes readers on a global tour of the sprawling process called "militarization". With her incisive verve, the eminent feminist Cynthia Enloe shows that militarization affects not just the obvious people - executives and factory floor workers who make fighter planes, land mines, and intercontinental missiles - but also the employees of food companies, toy companies, clothing companies, film studios, stock brokerages, and advertising agencies. Enloe's inquiry ranges widely from Japan to Korea, Serbia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Britain, Israel, the United States, and many points in between. She covers a broad variety of subjects: gays in the military, the history of "camp followers", the politics of women who have sexually serviced male soldiers, married life in the military nurses, and the recruitment of women into the military. Films equating action with war, condoms produced with a camouflage design, fashions celebrating brass buttons and epaulettes, tomato soup containing pasta shaped like Star wars weapons - all of these contribute to militaristic values that mold our culture in both war and peace, for civilians as well as those in the military.
Fuss, D. (1995). Identification Papers. New York and London, Routledge.
The notion of identification, especially in the discourse of feminist theory, has come sharply and dramatically into focus with the recent interest in such topics as queer performativity, cross-dressing, and racial passing. Identification Papers is the first book to track the evolution of identification's emergence in psychoanalytic theory. Diana Fuss seeks to understand where this notion of identification has come from, and why it has emerged as one of the most difficult problems in contemporary theory and politics. Identification Papers situates the recent critical interest in identification in the intellectual tradition that first gave the idea its theoretical relevance: psychoanalysis. Fuss begins from the assumption that identification has a history, and that the term carries with it a host of theoretical problems, conceptual difficulties, and ideological complications. By tracking the evolution of identification in Freud's work over a forty year period, Fuss demonstrates how the concept of identification is neither a theoretically neutral notion nor a politically innocent one. Identification Papers closely examines the three principal figures -- gravity, ingestion, and infection -- that psychoanalysis invokes to theorize identification. Fuss then deconstructs the psychoanalytic theory of identification in order to open up the possibility of more innovative rethinkings of the political. Drawing on literature, film, and Freud's own case histories, and engaging with a wide range of disciplines -- including critical theory, philosophy, film theory, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and feminism -- Identification Papers will be a necessary starting point in any future theoretical project that seeks to mobilize the concept of identification for a feminist politics.
Grosz, E. and E. Probyn, Eds. (1996). Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities
of Feminism. London and New York, Routledge.
Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are: dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores what runs underneath and within all sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally weird and strange about all bodies, all carnalities. Looking at a pleasurable variety of cultural forms and texts, the contributors consider the particular charms of girls and horses, from National Velvet to Marnie; discuss figures of the lesbian body from vampires to tribades to tomboys; uncover 'virtual' lesbians in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson; track desire in the music of legendary Blues singers; and investigate the ever-scrutinised and celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection includes two important pieces of fiction by Mary Fallon and Nicole Brossard. Sexy Bodies makes new connections between and amongst bodies, cruising the borders of the obscene, the pleasurable, the desirable and the hitherto unspoken rethinking sexuality anew as deeply and strangely sexy.
Halberstam, J. (2003). Female Masculinity. Durham and London, Duke University Press.
Halberstam presents a unique offering in queer studies: a study of the masculine lesbian woman. Halberstam makes a compelling argument for a more flexible taxonomy of masculinity, including not only men, who have historically held the power in society, but also women who embody qualities that are usually associated with maleness, such as strength, authority, and independence. Fleshing out her argument by drawing on a variety of sources, fiction, films, court documents, and diaries, Halberstam calls for society to acknowledge masculine lesbian women and value them.
Hall, D. E. and M. Pramaggiore, Eds. (1996). Re Presenting Bi Sexualities:
Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desires. New York and London, New
York University Press.
Is bisexuality coming out in America? Bisexual characters are surfacing on popular television shows and in film. Newsweek proclaims that a new sexual identity is emerging. But amidst this burgeoning acknowledgment of bisexuality, is there an understanding of what it means to be bisexual in a monosexual culture? RePresenting Bisexualities seeks to answer these questions, integrating a recognition of bisexual desire with new theories of gender and sexuality. Despite the breakthroughs in gender studies and queer studies of recent years, bisexuality has remained largely unexamined. Problematic sexual images are usually attributed either to homosexual or heterosexual desire while bisexual readings remain unexplored. The essays found in RePresenting Bisexualities discuss fluid sexualities through a variety of readings from the fence, covering texts from Emily Dickinson to Nine Inch Nails. Each author contributes to the collection a unique view of sexual fluidity and transgressive desire. Taken together, these essays provide the most comprehensive bisexual theory reader to date.
Ihde, D. (2002). Bodies in Technology. Minneapolis and London, University
of Minnesota.
New technologies suggest new ideas about embodiment: our "reach" extends to global sites through the Internet; we enter cyberspace through the engines of virtual reality. In this book, a leading philosopher of technology explores the meaning of bodies in technology-how the sense of our bodies and of our orientation in the world is affected by the various information technologies. Bodies in Technology begins with an analysis of embodiment in cyberspace, then moves on to consider ways in which social theorists have interpreted or overlooked these conditions. An astute and sensible judge of these theories, Don Ihde is a uniquely provocative and helpful guide through contemporary thinking about technology and embodiment, drawing on sources and examples as various as video games, popular films, the workings of e-mail, and virtual reality techniques. Charting the historical, philosophical, and practical territory between virtual reality and real life, this work is an important contribution to the national conversation on the impact technology-and information technology in particular-has on our lives in a wired, global age.
Intervention, B. A., Ed. (1997). The Bisexual Imaginary: Representation,
Identity and Desire. London and Washington, Cassell.
What does it mean to desire both men and women?This question has been answered in many different ways and asked for many different reasons: by Madonna, by Freud, by feminism, by Shakespeare, and more recently by the emergent bisexual community. The essays in The Bisexual Imaginary demonstrate that the ways in which bisexuality is discussed shed important light on how we make sense of our desires and how we produce identities and communities out of them. Covering variously film and sexology, photography and literature, psychoanalysis and political identity, this collection explores the different ways that bisexuality has both been represented and had its representation elided. By refusing to argue simply for a new and autonomous "bisexual self", these essays show desiring both men and women plays a complex role in the construction of lesbian, gay, and straight identities. Bisexuality is presented as simultaneously pivotal to a sense of self and as that which causes profound anxiety and tension within the self.The Bisexual Imaginary, offers wide-ranging analysis of these concerns and makes a timely case for the centrality of bisexual theory to gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, and cultural and literary studies.
Macdonald, M. (1995). Representing Women: Myths of Femininity in
the Popular Media. London, Edward Arnold.
This book reassesses how women are talked about and constructed visually across a range of popular media. Arguing for the importance of a historical approach, this book examines continuities and changes in dominant myths of femininity, especially in the transition from the modern to the postmodern period. The influences of feminism and consumerism on these developments are given particular attention. The book starts with an orientating chapter on the contributions of a variety of disciplines to our understanding of gender in relation to the media. Psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, art history and cultural studies are each critically reviewed, enabling students to compare perspectives and to locate the variety of approaches they may encounter in other readings. A chapter on gender and consumerism and a detailed analysis of myths of femininity are also included. Outlining key theoretical debates in an accessible manner this book offers a wide range of examples from advertising, women's magazines, popular television programmes and mainstream film.
Minh-ha, T. T. (1991). When the Moon Waxes Red.London and New York,
Routledge
"In this collection of 14 essays, Trinh, a writer, feminist, and filmmaker, explores unconventional documentary filmmaking and literary techniques. Typically, documentary styles have kept a distance between subject and viewer, creating a sense of mastery in the viewer. By stressing form rather than content, boundaries of the acceptable in art form are transgressed, resulting in a nonlinear movement that leads the viewer into a profound experience that does not have to make sense. In this well-documented book, Trinh explores semiotic ideas of Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes, along with the works of Zora Neale Hurston and Helene Cixous, among others. Illustrated with footage from her films, the form of Trinh's book plays a major role in the presentation of its content. A wonderful volume, this is recommended for academic libraries, especially those that support programs in film and women's studies". From Library Journal; Paula N. Arnold, Norwich Univ. Lib., Northfield, Vt. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Moore, P. (1997). Building Bodies. New Jersey, Rutgers University
Press.
Building Bodies is an exciting collection of articles that strive toward constructing theoretical models in which power, bodies, discourse, and subjectivity interact in a space we can call the "built" body, a dynamic, politicized, and biological site. Contributors discuss the complex relationship between body building and masculinity, between the built body and the racialized body, representations of women body builders in print and in film, and homoeroticism in body building. Linked by their focus on the sport and practice of body building, the authors in this volume challenge both the way their various disciplines (media studies, literary criticism, gender studies, film and sociology) have gone about studying bodies, and existing assumptions about the complex relationship between power, subjectivity, society, and flesh. Body building - in practice, in representation, and in the cultural imagination - serves as an launching point because the sport and practice provide ready challenges to existing assumptions about the "built" body.
Rust, P. (1995). Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics:
Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution. New York and London, New York University
Press.
The subject of bisexuality continues to divide the lesbian and gay community. At pride marches, in films such as Go Fish, at academic conferences, the role and status of bisexuals is hotly contested. Within lesbian communities, formed to support lesbians in a patriarchal and heterosexist society, bisexual women are often perceived as a threat or as a political weakness. Bisexual women feel that they are regarded with suspicion and distrust, if not openly scorned. Drawing on her research with over 400 bisexual and lesbian women, surveying the treatment of bisexuality in the lesbian and gay press, and examining the recent growth of a self-consciously political bisexual movement, Paula Rust addresses a range of questions pertaining to the political and social relationships between lesbians and bisexual women. By tracing the roots of the controversy over bisexuality among lesbians back to the early lesbian feminist debates of the 1970s, Rust argues that those debates created the circumstances in which bisexuality became an inevitable challenge to lesbian politics. She also traces it forward, predicting the future of sexual politics.
Wolf, J. P. a. P., Bernard. Eds., Ed. (2003). The Video Game Theory
Reade. London and New York, Routledge
In the early days of Pong and Pac Man, video games appeared to be little more than an idle pastime. Today, video games make up a multi-billion dollar industry that rivals television and film. The Video Game Theory Reader brings together exciting new work on the many ways video games are reshaping the face of entertainment and our relationship with technology. Drawing upon examples from widely popular games ranging from Space Invaders to Final Fantasy IX and Combat Flight Simulator 2, the contributors discuss the relationship between video games and other media; the shift from third- to first-person games; gamers and the gaming community; and the important sociological, cultural, industrial, and economic issues that surround gaming.
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