The Impossible “Becoming-Man”. Ovidiu Anemţoaicei’s Male Bodies and Sexual Difference. A Proposal for a Feminist Corporeo-Ethics Cover Image

Niemożliwe „stawanie-się-mężczyzną”. Ovidiu Anemţoaicei O propunere de corpo-etică feministă Masculinităţi și filosofia diferenţei sexuale [Propozycja feministycznej etyki korporalnej. Męskości i filozofia różnicy płciowej]
The Impossible “Becoming-Man”. Ovidiu Anemţoaicei’s Male Bodies and Sexual Difference. A Proposal for a Feminist Corporeo-Ethics

Author(s): Thomas Krupa
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Romanian Literature, Contemporary Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: masculinity; female and male in-corporation; sexual difference; Luce Irigaray; becoming-man;

Summary/Abstract: In this contribution, the author attempts to critically discuss main issues referred to by Ovidiu Anemţoaicei in his book Male Bodies and Sexual Difference. A Proposal for a Feminist Corporeo-Ethics (published in Romanian, 2017). Anemţoaicei’s is a new take on relations between male bodies, men, and masculinity that endeavours to implement, in the field of men’s studies, the notion of sexual difference as understood in Luce Irigaray’s thought. His readings of Irigaray’s works lead Anemţoaicei to a post-Deleuzian interpretation of the concept of “becoming-man,” which allows him to outline a framework of newly-defined masculinity, a non-hegemonic ethical stance on female and male corporeality.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 1 (13)
  • Page Range: 91-100
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish