Description

Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in the Atlantic world from the eighteenth–century to the present. Ranging in scope from the bridal mysticism of eighteenth–century German Moravians, through the education theories of the German "Gymnasium," the creation of the gendered "gourmand," the "discovery" of homosexuality, and the hyper-masculinized homosocial groupings of the National Socialists, the essays explore the inflections of constructed masculinity in the religious, educational, culinary, political, and social institutions of Germany, France, and North America from the eighteenth century to the twentieth centuries. The collection reveals the disparate and yet related worlds of masculine gender performance, recognizing the central role of the body and its relation to the spirit and senses in notions of European and Atlantic masculinity.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Union of Masculine and Feminine in Zinzendorfian Piety
Chapter 3 Wives of the Lamb: Moravian Brothers and Gender around 1750
Chapter 4 Temporal Men and the Eternal Bridegroom: Moravian Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 5 Techniques of Epicurian Masculinity: The Playing Method in German Education 1774-1820
Chapter 6 Engendering the Gastronome
Chapter 7 Twins! Homosexuality and Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Chapter 8 The Politics of Eros: The German Männerbund between Anit-Feminism and Anti-Semitism
Chapter 9 Priesting Like a Woman: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body in the Role of Episcopal Priest
Chapter 10 Afterword
Chapter 11 Notes on Contributors
Chapter 12 Index

Product details

Published Jun 10 2011
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9781611480238
Imprint Bucknell University Press
Series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Katherine M. Faull

Contributor

Craig D. Atwood

Contributor

Claudia Bruns

Contributor

Robin Jarrell

Contributor

Heikki Lempa

Contributor

Paul Peucker

Contributor

Robert D. Tobin

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