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UNINA9910450815503321 |
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Thompson Graham <1965-> |
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Male sexuality under surveillance [[electronic resource] ] : the office in American literature / / Graham Thompson |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003 |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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American fiction - History and criticism |
Offices in literature |
Sex (Psychology) in literature |
Sex in literature |
Men in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-243) and index. |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Managing Desire; 1."Dead letters . . . dead men?":The Rhetoric of the Oce in Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; 2. "And that paint is a thing that will bear looking into":The Business of Sexuality in The Rise of Silas Lapham; 3. "A dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea":The Businessman and the Fairy Child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt; Part Two: Postwar Unsettlement; 4. "The spirit of work weaves a magic wand":From Babbittry to Gray Flannelvia Tropical Incorporation |
5. "Opaque glass bricks":Sloan Wilson's Gray Flannel Man in the Queer Organization 6. "I ascend like a condor,while falling to pieces":Fear, Paranoia, and Self-Pity in Joseph Heller's Something Happened; Part Three: A Word for Windows; 7. "My own plein-air Arnality bared to the sky":Shoelaces, Social Energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine and The Fermata; 8. "Frank Lloyd Oop":Microserfs, Modern Migration, and the Architecture of the 1990's; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly |
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argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day, a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical discussion of the textualization of the gay male body as a device for producing a taxonomy of male-male relations. The combin |
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UNINA9910789681203321 |
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Exodus to Deuteronomy : a feminist companion to the Bible (second series) / / edited by Athalya Brenner |
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Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2000] |
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©2000 |
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0-567-35840-2 |
1-283-19745-6 |
9786613197450 |
0-567-39875-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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The feminist companion to the Bible (second series) ; ; 5 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; PartI: FIRST REVISIT: EXODUS AND MOSES; The Complexities of 'His' Liberation Talk: A Literary Feminist Reading of the Book of Exodus; Signifying on Exodus: Reading Race and Culture in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain; Oedipus Wrecks: Moses and God's Rod; Divine Puppeteer: Yahweh of Exodus; Part II: SECOND REVISIT: MIRIAM; Miriam; Miriam Re-Imagined, and Imaginary Women of Exodus in Musical Settings; Dreaming of Miriam's Well; The Authority of Miriam: A Feminist Rereading of Numbers 12 Prompted by Jewish Interpretation |
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Part III: THIRD REVISIT: DAUGHTERSThe Daughters of Zelophehad and Women's Inheritance: The Biblical Injunction and Its Outcome; Serah and the Exodus: A Midrashic Miracle; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; F; L; W; Y; Z |
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The studies in this collection, reflecting recent developments in feminist exegesis in Europe and the United States, comprise three 'revisits': the first, to Exodus and Moses, includes Susanne Scholz on a literary feminist reading of Exodus, Harold Washington on Exodus and Zora Neale Hurston's 'Moses, Man of the Mountain', Ilona Rashkow on 'Oedipus Wreckes: Moses and God's Rod', and 'Divine Puppeteer: Yahweh of Exodus' by Cheryl Kirk-Duggan. The second revisit, to Miriam, comprises 'Miriam' by Phyllis Silverman Kramer, 'Miriam Re-Imagined, and Imaginary Women of Exodus in Musical Settings' by |
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