Male Sexuality Under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature - Hardcover

''Male Sexuality under Surveillance represents a significance contribution to American literary studies, gender, studies, and queer theory.'' ''Male Sexuality under Surveillance is an intelligent, lively, and well-argued analysis of the construction of male sexuality in the business office, and it makes a substantial contribution to scholarship in the field.''

"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.