Male Impersonators Men Performing Masculinity eBook Mark Simpson
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The book that helped change the way we look at men….
Why is bodybuilding a form of transsexualism? What do football and anal sex have in common? Why is Top Gun such an flamingly ‘gay’ movie? Why is male vanity such a hot commodity? And why oh why do Marky Mark’s pants keep falling down?
In this highly influential collection, first published in 1994, Mark Simpson argues for the vital centrality of homoeroticism and narcissism in any understanding of the fraught phenomenon of modern masculinity. Male Impersonators is a penetrating, ticklish but always serious examination of what happens to men when they become ‘objectified’.
From porn to shaving adverts, rock and roll to war movies, drag to lads’ nights out, Male Impersonators reviews the greatest show on Earth – the performance of masculinity.
PRAISE FOR MALE IMPERSONATORS
'Simpson pulls the pants off popular culture and wittily winks at the Freudian symbols lurking beneath.' – The Modern Review
'Mark Simpson's Male Impersonators could do for male sexuality what Camilla Paglia did for women, finding latent homo subtexts to Marky Mark, Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise's baseball bat.' – Melody Maker
'This set of high-spirited essays displays more insight into the masculine mystique than has the decade of earnest men's studies that preceded it. Simpson has an unerring eye for the inner logic and pretences of a wide range of masculine enterprises and symbols. THIS IS QUEER THEORY WITHOUT THE JARGON AND IS A MUST FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THINGS MALE. GENERAL AND ACADEMIC READERS AT ALL LEVELS ' – Choices
‘What is happening when men and their sexualities become the focus of the camera’s gaze? Mark Simpson’s brilliant, witty, up-to-the-minute analysis shatters complacencies, old and new.’ – Alan Sinfield, University of Sussex
'Mark Simpson detects and dissects the myths of machismo and its attendant media circus with refreshing gusto and wit.' – John Ashbery
‘It’s not only women who don’t have the phallus – men don’t have it either – just the inadequate penis! This book cheered me up with the reminder that when it gets down to it, both sexes are just great pretenders.’ – Lorraine Gamman
'Like me this book plays with men. Provocative, irreverent, acerbic and witty, it offers one gigantic intellectual orgasm after another.' – Margi Clarke
'A brilliantly-positioned array of firecrackers, elephant traps and banana skins designed to trick conventional maleness into showing it's true hand, or some extremity.... SIMPSON CAPERS LIKE ROBIN GOODFELLOW, STRIPPING OFF THE FIG LEAVES WITH EXUBERANCE.' – The Observer
'CLEVER, ENGAGING, INCISIVE.' – The Guardian
‘EMINENTLY READABLE.' – My Prime
'Male Impersonators quickly reveals itself to be different and, arguably more insightful than many previous 'Masculinity books'.... It has an excellent readability factor compared to many others freighted with dull writing.'
– Perversions
'A DEFT AND PERSUASIVE DISCUSSION ON THE SUBJECT.'
– Stage and Television Today
'These smashingly provocative essays by the spunky Brit writer Mark Simpson detonate myths, stereotypes and icons, gay as well as straight. The psycho-social line separating homo and hetero maleness, he fulsomely shows, is much fuzzier than Robert Bly and Pat Buchanan find it to be.'
– Lambda Book Report
Male Impersonators Men Performing Masculinity eBook Mark Simpson
...and "femininity" is still dangerous.I can't add much to the (deserved) glowing reviews for this collection of essays that is now 18 years old and as radical, relevant and challenging to unreflective fashionable opinions as when it first appeared. Simpson understands men and writes honestly about them in ways that so many writers can't or won't.
As other reviewers have mentioned--and it still bears repeating: Simpson's most important message may be that gay men are men and same-sex orientation is just one way of being a man, of being "masculine," out of many equally "masculine" ways of being.
Simpson's embrace of Freudian theory holds up well and is an excellent support for his arguments. Rather than feeling outdated, the references and ideas come across as refreshing and thought-provoking. For this reader, whose only familiarity with Freud is pop culture's oversimplification bordering on ridicule, Simpson's clear explication of Freud's ideas, and his convincing way of using them to analyze male attitudes and behavior, is an enticing introduction that made me want to read the original.
My favorite chapter was the last, "Popular men: manly and unmanly," which includes an analysis of the brilliant comedy team Laurel and Hardy and their films from the 1920s and 30s. Simpson shows that the homoerotic elements in the comedy are both genuinely "sexual," as some gay activists have claimed, and at the same time "innocent." The sweetness in the humor is perhaps the last remnant of a time when same-sex love could hide in plain sight under the guise of comedy, and when love between men did not necessarily imply "buggery-pokery," as Simpson so delightfully calls it.
Anybody who likes men, is interested in them, or just wants to read a well-written, humorous yet serious book about a major cultural obsession should not miss this book. It's now out in a Kindle edition as well as the paperback, but since the Kindle edition lacks linked footnotes and table of contents, it's a frustrating read for any except the most casual readers.
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Male Impersonators Men Performing Masculinity eBook Mark Simpson Reviews
"Like me this book plays with men. Provocative, irreverent, acerbic and witty, it offers one gigantic intellectual orgam after another." - Margi Clarke
We have all seen female impersonatorsit, but when have we seen the male impersonators? And what if the males being impersonated were done by women, but instead femme men? It's a world most of us never dreamed existed. Those of us who are crossdressers in real life have suddenly found a fasinating slice of life we never dreamed of. A must read! dianefromcarroll@yahoo.com
A study of the homoerotic subtext of everything from sports, underwear ads and Laurel and Hardy. Gee, who knew that Calvin Klein underwear ads were meant to appeal to gay men!! It's all pseudo-scientific Freudean psycho-babble. And very, very dated. Unreadable.
Like most of Simpson's writings, witty and mischievous and iconoclastic. My only minor gripe would be with what I view as Simpson's tendentious application of Freudian theory, which strikes me as a little outdated now. Otherwise, this book is great fun, with some marvelous paradoxical insights.
really one of my faves!
Muy Interesante.
Male impersonators gives a cultural approach about masculinity, limited in some ways to North America's pop culture. The author shares different points of view, easy to read.
...and "femininity" is still dangerous.
I can't add much to the (deserved) glowing reviews for this collection of essays that is now 18 years old and as radical, relevant and challenging to unreflective fashionable opinions as when it first appeared. Simpson understands men and writes honestly about them in ways that so many writers can't or won't.
As other reviewers have mentioned--and it still bears repeating Simpson's most important message may be that gay men are men and same-sex orientation is just one way of being a man, of being "masculine," out of many equally "masculine" ways of being.
Simpson's embrace of Freudian theory holds up well and is an excellent support for his arguments. Rather than feeling outdated, the references and ideas come across as refreshing and thought-provoking. For this reader, whose only familiarity with Freud is pop culture's oversimplification bordering on ridicule, Simpson's clear explication of Freud's ideas, and his convincing way of using them to analyze male attitudes and behavior, is an enticing introduction that made me want to read the original.
My favorite chapter was the last, "Popular men manly and unmanly," which includes an analysis of the brilliant comedy team Laurel and Hardy and their films from the 1920s and 30s. Simpson shows that the homoerotic elements in the comedy are both genuinely "sexual," as some gay activists have claimed, and at the same time "innocent." The sweetness in the humor is perhaps the last remnant of a time when same-sex love could hide in plain sight under the guise of comedy, and when love between men did not necessarily imply "buggery-pokery," as Simpson so delightfully calls it.
Anybody who likes men, is interested in them, or just wants to read a well-written, humorous yet serious book about a major cultural obsession should not miss this book. It's now out in a edition as well as the paperback, but since the edition lacks linked footnotes and table of contents, it's a frustrating read for any except the most casual readers.
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