Feminist Theory, Postmodernism 

The Hysterical Male is designed as a thematically focussed exploration of gender politics in the 1990s. It provides an intense, provocative and creative theorization of feminism under the failing sign of male hystericization. 

The hysterical male: new feminist theory / A. and M. Kroker -- Sacrificial sex. 1. Three sisters: pure virtue, pure sin and pure nonsense / E. Town. 2. Big jugs / J. Bloomer. 3. A ghost story / A. Gordon. 4. Behind master mind / C. Noble -- Mirror of seduction. 5. The confession mirror / C. Spitzack. 6. Blondes / T. Podlesney. 7. Confessions of a Harlequin reader: the myth of male mothers / A. Miles. 8. Yvonne Rainer's The man who envied women / P. Phelan -- Phallus of malice. 9. Parading the masculine / C. Tysh. 10. Feminist ejaculations / S. Bell. 11. The fetish in sex, lies & videotape: whither the phallus? / B. Kaite. 12. My first confession / S. Pfohl. 13. Simulations / A. Haase -- Daddy's no. 14. The phallic mother: platonic meta-physics of Lacan's imaginary / L. Gauthier. 15. Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist metatheory / C. Levin. 16. This is not a president: Baudrillard, Bush, and enchanted simulation / D. Rubenstein.