{"product_id":"male-matters","title":"Male Matters","description":"      Calvin Thomas's \u003ci\u003eMale Matters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         reveals the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process\u003cbr\u003e         that transgresses the boundaries of gender. Wise and quirky, sophisticated\u003cbr\u003e         and coarse, serious and hilarious, this look at male identity and creativity\u003cbr\u003e         and dislocation at the end of the twentieth century definitely will not\u003cbr\u003e         assuage male anxiety!\u003cbr\u003e       \"An excellent and important\u003cbr\u003e         book. . . . By mixing high and low, by speaking candidly about what we\u003cbr\u003e         usually keep in the (water) closet, while simultaneously engaging the\u003cbr\u003e         'highest' philosophies of language and culture, Thomas calls the entire\u003cbr\u003e         enterprise of criticism into question.\" -- Jeremy Earp, \u003ci\u003eJournal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e        of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       \"A brave, indispensable\u003cbr\u003e         exercise in writing the male body, and a tour de force of theoretically\u003cbr\u003e         informed close reading.\" -- Kevin Floyd, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Midwest \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e        Modern Language Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       \"Both analyzes and performs\u003cbr\u003e         our anxieties about masculinity. . . . This experiment in criticism transgresses\u003cbr\u003e         boundaries of theory, gender, and academic taste in ways sure to delight\u003cbr\u003e         and infuriate its readers.\" -- Gregory Jay, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerica \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e        the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       \"Calvin Thomas is able\u003cbr\u003e         to hint at a way out of the prison-house, as he puts it, of straight male\u003cbr\u003e         identity.\" -- Kathy Acker, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Memoriam to Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244338336088,"sku":"9780252065002","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/male-matters","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}