Male Sexuality under Surveillance

Office In American Literature

Graham Thompson

• Verlag: University Of Iowa Press
• Jahr: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781587294402
• Thema: Literature
• Thema: Literary Criticism

Male Sexuality under Surveillance is a lively, intelligent, and expertly argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office. Graham Thompson interweaves three main threads: a historicized cultural analysis of the development of the modern business office from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present day, a Foucauldian discussion of the office as the site of various disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical discussion of the textualization of the gay male body as a device for producing a taxonomy of male-male relations. The combination of these themes produces a study that is fresh, insightful, and provocative.