This international and multidisciplinary volume focuses on the male body and constructions of gender in a variety of cultural productions and formats. Locating

Running Scared responds to the absence of critical attention to male sexuality in film by bringing representations of phallic masculinity into the spotlight. In

Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from ge

Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon’s paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs to the battered heroes of act

"There is much to like about a book which gets real about the male anus as a site of penetrability which is not reducible to discourses of feminization, phallic