"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 ...
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"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.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xxi, 248pp, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth boards in lightly rubbed dust-jacket. From the jacket cover, the author 'explores the construction of male sexuality in the business office by analyzing the boundaries of male friendship, the impact of corporatization and the feminization of office work upon straight male sexuality, and how the sex and gender anxiety evident in straight male responses to the postwar office world is replaced by a different sense of how identity may be constructed in relation to work. '