When he wrote, "Let your life be a counter friction to stop the He commits himself to the civil disobedience Thoreau championed Rededicate himself to "equal justice" as a fundamental human right. The words of Abraham Lincoln, at whose memorial he is inspired to Remembers reading aloud to his lover Walt Whitman's I Sing theīody Electric as their car passed the Continental Divide. Past as a creator of texts that carry new life into the future. Monette's sense of citizenship binds him to great Americans of the When the March on Washington of spring 1993 beckoned Monette as an eminent spokesman for gay liberation and forĬompassion toward AIDS sufferers, Monette put to himself and hisįriends the question, "Why were we going to Washington?" The Waning strength to bring into closer connection: the gay communityĪnd the non-gay majority signified by a capital city so often hostile Time he is also a proud citizen of two communities he gives his Incessant pharmaceutical assistance in order to survive. for medicine,"Ī person who feels his corporeal being as an infirmity that requires Traces the different identities he must adopt as an AIDS victim struggling to keep going. The body suffering from AIDS, for example, is a phenomenonĮntirely contemporary, and two works in this issue illuminate that Sometimes vain and exploitative, sometimes admirable to the point When they observe a male body in action is this self-interested quest, Going day after day toward its variety of goals. But also hunger,Īnger, lust - these feelings keep us going.Īnd the central narrative of all body histories is precisely this forwardness, this persistence in pleasing the body so that it will keep Gravity itself - the raised step, the lifted arm. As Stephenĭobyns puts it in his recent volume, Body Traffic: Is the essential carrier of life, the sign of the future. It? These are the most basic questions, not just for scholarly discourse but in the daily personal experience of every male. How does the male body look upon itself, and how do others see Speculation and future interpersonal transactions. Issue will not answer these questions in any definitive way, but theyĭo provide additional information and ideas with which readers canįormulate some reasonable responses and some guidelines for further Models of masculinity that might produce more satisfied and joyfulīodies in a community working toward social goals like freedomĪnd justice? The contents of this second number of MQR's special Of media imagery have turned their spotlights respectively on patriarchal power-politics and the use or misuse of muscles, sexualĪggressiveness, and the signs of aging? Where does one go to find Male feel more or less anxious now that feminism and the pressures Or less benevolent than those of former eras? Does the contemporary The male body simply an anatomical framework that the cultureĬlothes in changing conceptual fashions, each declaring a differentĬut of "masculinity"? Is the contemporary version of maleness more Remark about women, "Is one born, or does one become, a man?" Is Posed some important questions about the topic, including the fundamental question of definition. The first number of this special issue devoted to the male body
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