Over the past several years, the question of men’s relation to feminist criticism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated topic. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics.
In the wake of feminism, many men have found it imperative to begin the task of retheorizing-as readers, writers, living and breathing bodies-the male position in our culture. Bringing together the work of 18 male critics, this collection of new work opens up an important new avenue in literary and cultural criticism, as well as in gender and feminist theory.
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“A number of powerful and interesting articles offer new insights into both methodology and particular texts. The best essays are full of vital insights and ideas that will allow reader new access to some key works of literature. There is much to welcome in this collection.”
—Choice
“In its way, [Boone’s introduction] is a brilliant thought. It opens up the fantastic possibility of a critical revisitation of the entire corpus of world literature by men reading as ‘engendered’ men.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“Remarkably sophisticated but lucid. This superb volume will remain an invaluable resource in getting us to that ‘next phase’ . . . [of] gender/sexuality studies.”
—Marlon Ross, rev. in Signs
“The difficulties, contradictions, and knot-making complexities of living with and through the implications of this dialectic between desire and realistic possibility are vividly illustrated in the essays in Engendering Men.”
—Jeffrey Weeks, rev. in Victorian Studies