Engendering Men The Question of Male Feminist Criticism Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature Series

Over the past several years, the question of men?s relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. 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 the male position in our culture. This collection of new essays brings together seventeen male critics whose work ? on poetry, fiction, the Broadway stage, film and television, and broader cultural and psychoanalytic texts ? is opening up new avenues in criticism, as well as in gender and feminist theory.

Editors’ Introduction Part 1: Men, Feminism and Critical Institutions 1. Of Men(n) and Feminism: Who(se) Is the Sex That Writes2. Engendering F.O.M.: The Private Life of American Renaissance 3. Redeeming the Phallus: Wallace Stevens, Frank Lentricchia, and the Politics of (Hetero)Sexuality4. "The Lady Was a Litle Pereurse": The Gender of Persuasion in Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesie 5. Dicipl(in)ing the Master, Mastering the Discipl(in)e: Erotonomies in James’ Tales of Literary LifePart 2: Power, Panic, and Pathos in Male Culture 6. Cowboys, Cadillacs, and Cosmonauts: Families, Film Genres, and Technocultures 7. "Meat Out of the Eater": Panic and Desire in American Puritan Poetry 8. Hester Prynne, C’est Moi: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Anxieties of Gender 9. The Love-Master Part 3: Cleaning Out the Closet(s) 10. Are We (Not) What We Are Becoming? "Gay" "Identity," "Gay Studies," and the Disciplining of Knowledge11. Wilde’s Hard Labor and the Birth of Gay Reading 12. Homo-Narcissism; or, Heterosexuality 13. Rebel Without a Closet Part 4: Revolutionary Alliances: Call and Response Across Gender 14. Caged Birds: Race and Gender in the Sonnet15. Homelessness at Home: Placing Emily Dickinson in (Women’s) History16. Celibate Sisters-in-Revolution: Towards Reading Sylvia Townsend 17. (In)Visible Alliances: Conflicting "Chronicles" of Feminism

Joseph A. Boone (University of Southern California, LA, USA), Michael Cadden