Male Sexuality Under Surveillance

Office In American Literature

• Author(s): Graham Thompson,
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Pages: 270
• ISBN_10: 1587294400
  ISBN_13: 9781587294402
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica ,

Description:... 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 these themes produces a study that is fresh, insightful, and provocative.