Revealing Male Bodies

Nancy Tuana, William Cowling, Maurice Hamington, Greg Johnson

Indiana University Press, May 6, 2002 - Social Science - 328 pages

Revealing Male Bodies is the first scholarly collection to directly confront male lived experience. There has been an explosion of work in men's studies, masculinity issues, and male sexuality, in addition to a growing literature exploring female embodiment. Missing from the current literature, however, is a sustained analysis of the phenomenology of male-gendered bodies. Revealing Male Bodies addresses this omission by examining how male bodies are physically and experientially constituted by the economic, theoretical, and social practices in which men are immersed.

Contributors include Susan Bordo, William Cowling, Terry Goldie, Maurice Hamington, Don Ihde, Greg Johnson, Björn Krondorfer, Alphonso Lingis, Patrick McGann, Paul McIlvenny, Terrance MacMullan, Jim Perkinson, Steven P. Schacht, Richard Schmitt, Nancy Tuana, Craig L. Wilkins, and John Zuern.

Contents

• SUSAN BORDO: 19
• Racism and the Domination of Women: 38
• Time Mastery and the Male Body: 55
• MaterialSemiotics and a Manly Appetite: 83
• Graphic Fictions: 100
• Male Femaling and Male Feminism: 125
• A: 146
• Gay Drag Queens and the Masculine Embodiment of: 155
• Beyond Stiff Voices Flaccid Feelings: 173
• Gonna Paint the White House Black: 198
• Male Sports Bodies: 231
• Confessions of an African Bishop: 247
• Caring Embodiment and a Moral Revolution: 269
• The Phenomenological ChallengeThe One and the Many: 287
• CONTRIBUTORS: 299

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About the author

Nancy Tuana is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She works in the area of philosophy of science, epistemology, and feminist science studies. She has published The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature and Woman and the History of Philosophy, and is currently at work on Philosophy of Science Studies. She has edited six anthologies including Feminism and Science and Feminist Interpretations of Plato. She is currently co-editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and series editor of the Penn State Press series Re-Reading the Canon.

William Cowling is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is the author (with Nancy Tuana) of "The Presence and Absence of the Feminine in Plato's Philosophy" in Feminist Interpretations of Plato. Cowling's research interests include the role of embodied narratives in science practice and the manner which narrative structures frame the content, context, and status of scientific theories.

Maurice Hamington received a Ph.D. in Religion and Ethics and a Graduate Certificate in the Study of Men and Women in Society from the University of Southern California and he is currently completing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He served as a Research Scholar in the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles and was the founding Director of the Women's Studies Program at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles. He is the author of Hail Mary? The Struggle for Ultimate Womanhood in Catholicism.He currently teaches at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon.

Greg Johnson is Assistant Professor of philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University. His areas of specialty are contemporary Continental philosophy, with special interest in hermeneutics, phenomenology and critical theory. He also teaches political philosophy, philosophy of religion and feminist theory.

Terrance MacMullan s a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oregon, where he has worked as a Graduate Teaching Fellow for the Departments of Religious Studies, Philosophy, and the Humanities. He is currently completing his dissertation, which develops a pragmatist critique of whiteness in the U.S. His other areas of interest include social and political philosophy, the history of nineteenth and twentieth century American and Continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and feminist theory.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Revealing Male Bodies; Revealing Male Bodies
• Editors: Nancy Tuana, William Cowling, Maurice Hamington, Greg Johnson
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0253108853, 9780253108852
• Length: 328 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Gender Studies