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Masculinities and Representation

The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England

Konrad Eisenbichler editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Published:22nd Nov '24

£66.00

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In studies on premodern masculinities that have enriched scholarship in recent years, relatively little attention has been paid to the eroticizing of the male body. Masculinities and Representation seeks to fill this lacuna, illustrating how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity. In so doing, this collection details how, as a social construct, masculinity was not a single concept, but a dynamic and intricate notion.

Focusing on the premodern period, Masculinities and Representation reveals how heteronormative masculinity was affirmed, but also how it was challenged when the male body was eroticized in art, literature, and devotion, or when “masculine” norms were transgressed by the assumption of “feminine” behaviours. Ultimately, the book demonstrates how masculinity itself could be transgressive in its focus of affection or in its inherent ambiguities.

ISBN: 9781487556976

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm

Weight: 1g

268 pages