When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity / Edition 1

by Henning Bech

Overview

This work proposes a novel interpretation of the nature of masculinity and its connections with homosexuality. Besides a critical discussion of existing theories in the area, the author also analyzes a rich variety of other materials, including novels, films and other literature. It represents both an analysis of the places in which encounters occur - the railway station, the park, the disco, the consulting room, the stadium - and is also a metaphor for key aspects of modernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745615592
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/30/1997
Series:	Homosexuality and Modernity
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.08(w) x 9.01(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
I: Introduction
II: Homosexualities Out of Date
III: Absent Homosexuality
IV: The Homosexual Form of Existence
V: Homosexuality and Society
VI: The Disappearance of the Modern Homosexual
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Henning Bech is one of the most original and thought-provoking interpreters of contemporary culture who emerged in recent years in European social science. The publishers are to be congratulated on making his "magnum opus" available to English readers, who will find Bech's work unlike anything they read thus far, opening entirely new horizons."

"On the face of it, this book is a most thorough and profound insight into the homosexual experience; but it is also a most synthetic, multifaceted analysis of contemporary living, of which that experience is a sample, an epitome and condensed expression. An exemplary exercise in reaching the totality through a case study." "Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds "

"Henning Bech is one of the most original and stimulating contemporary writers on sexuality. "When Men Meet "is an extraordinarily ambitious work about the conditions and possibilities of life in modern society, and Bech produces a dazzling melange of insights and observations. A significant contribution to debates within gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, as well as wider debates about modernity and postmodernity, it could become a landmark book." "Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank University, London "

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