Masculinities and Representation : The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England - Konrad Eisenbichler

Masculinities and Representation

The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England

By: Konrad Eisenbichler (Editor)

Hardcover | 21 November 2024

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In studies on premodern masculinities that have enriched scholarship in recent years, relatively little attention has been paid to the eroticising 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 eroticised 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.

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