Male sexuality under surveillance : the office in American literature /

Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly 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...

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Main Author:	Thompson, Graham, 1965-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003.
Subjects:	Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Bartleby, the scrivener. Howells, William Dean, > 1837-1920. > Rise of Silas Lapham. Lewis, Sinclair, > 1885-1951. > Babbitt. American fiction > History and criticism. Offices in literature. Sex (Psychology) in literature. Sex in literature. Men in literature. Electronic book. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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Summary:	Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly 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 combination of the.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 248 pages)
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-243) and index.
ISBN:	1587294400 9781587294402 9780877458487 0877458480