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Book by Bech Henning
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"Henning Bech is one of the most original and thought–provoking interpreters of contemporary culture who emerged in recent years in European social science. The publishers are to be congratulated on making his magnum opus available to English readers, who will find Bech′s work unlike anything they read thus far, opening entirely new horizons."
"On the face of it, this book is a most thorough and profound insight into the homosexual experience; but it is also a most synthetic, multifaceted analysis of contemporary living, of which that experience is a sample, an epitome and condensed expression. An exemplary exercise in reaching the totality through a case study." Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds
"Henning Bech is one of the most original and stimulating contemporary writers on sexuality. When Men Meet is an extraordinarily ambitious work about the conditions and possibilities of life in modern society, and Bech produces a dazzling melange of insights and observations. A significant contribution to debates within gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, as well as wider debates about modernity and postmodernity, it could become a landmark book." Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank University, London
Présentation de l'éditeur
Bech proposes a novel interpretation of the nature of masculinity and its connections with homosexuality. Besides a critical discussion of existing theories in the area, the author also analyses a rich variety of other materials, including novels, films and other literature. When Men Meet represents both an analysis of the places in which encounters occur – the railway station, the park, the disco, the consulting room, the stadium – but is also a metaphor for key aspects of modernity. In analysing the nature of the modern social world, Bech makes use of insights from Adorno and Benjamin as well as Sartre and Heidegger.
Modernity and sexuality, Bech argues, are both intertwined and changing. He concludes by proposing that, having been created by modernity, ′the homosexual′ is now disappearing in conjunction with the changes transforming modernity itself.
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When Men Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997
ISBN 10 : 0226040216
ISBN 13 : 9780226040219
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Owner's bookplate inside front cover. Book is in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Issued without dustjacket. For sociologist Henning Bech, the image of the male homosexual has become emblematic of the modern urban condition, in which freedom and mobility contend with transience and superficiality, in which possibility, energy, and engagement vie with uncertainty and restlessness. In this powerful and frankly provocative critique, Bech skillfully examines the distinctive relationship between urban modernism and the gay experience, exploring in compelling fashion its growing ramifications for the cultural mainstream. Gay society has persevered, even flourished, in this highly charged urban environment, aestheticizing and sexualizing the spaces, both public and private, where men meet. With profound insight and honesty, Bech details this world, candidly reflecting on sex, friendship, love, and life as manifest in the homosexual form of existence. He convincingly demonstrates that, in the face of modern alienation, successful coping strategies developed by gay men are gradually being adopted by mainstream heterosexual society. These adaptations are often masked by what Bech calls an "absent homosexuality, " in which sublimated themes of homosexuality and masculine love surface, only to be disavowed in expressions of social anxiety. This "absent homosexuality" acts as a kind of cultural filter, allowing key traits of gay life to be absorbed by the mainstream, while shielding heterosexual males from their own homophobic anxieties. Ultimately, Bech foresees, a postmodern convergence of hetero- and homosexual forms of exisce emergent from this urban landscape and, with it, a new masculine synthesis. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1759786226891
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