The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory (Culture Texts)

A companion to the editors' Body Invaders , this book offers 16 pieces that range from the academic to the pornographic. Readers not yet seduced into accepting post-modern analysis--a prerequisite for understanding several of the works--may wonder if this emperor is wearing any clothes. In "The Fetish in sex, lies & videotape ," Berkeley Kaite discusses "Baudrillard's critique of the 'metaphysic of alienated essence,' which . . . challenges the unyielding base-superstructure model whereby use-value . . . is a reflection of an anterior reality." Less obscure is Shannon Bell's "Feminist Ejaculations," a politically oriented discussion of female secretions during sex, complete with a how-to guide and a "pornographic, erotic, and educational" photo of the author masturbating. Angela Miles's intriguing "Confessions of a Harlequin Reader" suggests that the macho male of pulp romance is actually a nurturing mother figure. In "This Is Not a President," Diane Rubenstein suggests that George Bush is a living example of trompe l'oeil and, at times, resembles the 19th-century female hysterics studied by Freud. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. CONTENTS......Page 9 The Hysterical Male: new feminist theory......Page 11 I. SACRIFICIAL SEX......Page 17 1: THE THREE SISTERS OF TANYA MARS......Page 18 2: BIG JUGS......Page 28 3: A GHOST STORY......Page 43 4: BEHIND MASTER MIND UP ON TIME MISPRISONERS ONCE ESCAPE LITERATURE......Page 64 II. MIRROR OF SEDUCTION......Page 70 5: THE CONFESSION MIRROR: PLASTIC IMAGES FOR SURGERY......Page 72 6: BLONDES......Page 84 7: CONFESSIONS OF A HARLEQUIN READER: ROMANCE AND THE MYTH OF MALE MOTHERS......Page 108 8: SPATIAL ENVY YVONNE RAINER’S THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN......Page 147 III. PHALLUS OF MALICE......Page 161 9: PARADING THE MASCULINE: FIGURES, DECOYS AND OTHER CANARDS......Page 163 10: FEMINIST EJACULATIONS......Page 169 11: THE FETISH IN SEX, LIES &VIDEOTAPE: WHITHER THE PHALLUS?......Page 185 12. MY FIRST CONFESSION......Page 201 13. SIMULATIONS......Page 202 IV. DADDY’S NO......Page 223 14. THE PHALLIC MOTHER: PLATONIC META-PHYSICS OF LACAN’S IMAGINARY......Page 226 15. LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FEMINIST METATHEORY......Page 249 16. THIS IS NOT A PRESIDENT: BAUDRILLARD, BUSH AND ENCHANTED SIMULATION.......Page 267 Contributors......Page 282 Acknowledgments......Page 285 Edited And Introduced By Arthur And Marilouise Kroker. Includes Bibliographical References.