Male
Fantasies Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History
Klaus Theweleit
Translated by Stephen Conway in collaboration with Erica
Carter and Chris Turner
Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
Volume 2:
Male Bodies: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror
Klaus Theweleit
Translated by Erica Carter and Chris Turner
Foreword by Jessica Benjamin and Anson Radinbach
Volume I:
$24.95 paper
ISBN 0-8166-1449-0
Volume II:
$24.95 paper
ISBN 0-8166-1451-2
These two volumes center upon the fantasies that
preoccupied a group of men who played a crucial role in the
rise of Nazism. Theweleit draws upon the novels, letters,
and autobiographies of these proto-fascists and their
contemporaries, seeking out and reconstructing their images
of women. Heavily illustrated with cartoons, advertisements,
engravings, and posters of the era.
"Theweleit's
book asks some key questions for those of us
interested in Men's Studies. It takes us inside the psyches
of men who, in Theweleit's analysis, are not destroying and
murdering out of sublimation, but because they want to."
—Men's Studies Review
"Theweleit has succeeded not only in provoking the reader
intellectually, but also in keeping him or her in suspense."
—South Central Review
"Horrifying and engaging." —Dorothy Allison, Voice
"Something painful, sad, difficult, and exciting is being
tracked here, and it is worth your attention." —Robert
Gregory, American Book Review
"These persuasive insights will interest feminists,
psychologists, and anyone concerned with poststructuralist
thought, particularly its emphasis on the body. Highly
recommended." —Religious Studies Review
"Klaus Theweleit's book, like the first volume of his
massive study, usefully employs psychoanalytic insights in
conjunction with the social-historical analyses of Elias,
Mary Douglas, Foucault, and others to investigate the
formation and nature of the fascist psyche in 1920s Germany,
exploring here the male self-image, envisaged as armored
against the threat and intrusion of the feminine."
—Contemporary Sociology
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