"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.
- ISBN13 9780877458487
- Publish Date 1 March 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Iowa Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 270
- Language English