Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies History
Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies History
by Klaus Theweleit
University of Minnesota Press, 1987 Paper: 978-0-8166-1449-3 Library of Congress Classification UA717.T4713 1987 Dewey Decimal Classification 355.120943
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword
Ehrenreich,
Barbara
Preface
Chapter 1:
Men and Women
Seven Marriages
The Historical Context and the Nature of the Material
Biographical Tradition
Partings
Brides
De-Realization
Hands Off!
Visions
Erasing the Stain
Forms of Defense
A Soldier's Love
Excursus on “Homosexuality” and Where We Go From Here
A Soldier's Love (continued)
Woman as Aggressor
Rifle-Women (Flintenweiber): The Castrating Woman
The Red Nurse
On Sythen's Ground—Where Myths Abound
The White Nurse—Countess of Sythen Castle
Mothers
Sisters
Marriage—Sisters of Comrades
The Lady with the Light
An Aside on Proletarian Reality, Proletarian Woman and Man of the Left: The Reality Content of the Projections
Attacks on Women
Sexual Murder: Killing for Pleasure
Preliminary Findings
Chapter 2:
Floods, Bodies, History
Aggregate States of the Bodily Interior
The Red Flood
Street of Blood
Boiling
Exploding Earth/Lava
Warding Off the Red Floods
Streams
All That Flows
Very Early History: The Woman from the Water
Woman: Territory of Desire
Origins of the Anti-Female Armor
Early Bourgeois History: The Expansion and Contraction of Bodies and the World
Expansion and Contraction, A.D. 1500: The Ocean Wide and the “God Within”
Monogamization
Centralization and the “White Lady”: The Geometricizing of Bodies
Solo with Accompaniment: Falcon and Medusa, or “Let There Be Ego”
Some of the Principal Features of Reterritorialization through Women and Images of Women
The “One-and-Only” and Doubts about the Nature of Reality: Armor on Two Fronts
Sexualization of the Bourgeois Woman in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Reduction of Woman to the Vagina and Her Enlargement into the Sea of Seas
German Classicism: The Woman-Machine and the “New Morality” as a Further Erosion of the Shores of Woman-Nature
Into the Nineteenth Century: Crystalline Wave/Concealed Woman—from Water to Blood
Closing Remarks
Some Characteristics of an Artificial Relation: The Maintenance of Lack in Relations between the Sexes
Preliminary Remarks
The Body of Woman as Object of the “New Morality”
One Form of Female Sacrifice
The Incest Commandment
The Ocean in Woman—Escape from the Double Bind—Incest Prohibition/Incest Commandment