- Title
- "Him a'got too much skin": psoriatic masculinity and The Singing Detective
- Creator
- Winter, Alexandra
- Relation
- Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 10, Issue 2, p. 1-13
- Relation
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs/jigs-index.html
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2007
- Description
- Although hysteria has traditionally been the purview of femininity, the male hysteric has become more prevalent under the social and cultural conditions of postmodernity, namely, the delegitimation and fragmentation of identity. This article reads the central trope of psoriasis in Dennis Potter’s television mini-series The Singing Detective as a corporeal symptom that ambivalently reflects, and resists, the economic and social context of Thatcherite Britain. Philip Marlow’s psoriasis enacts both the erosion and the overproduction of boundaries, and is read as metonymic for a male social body that is being experienced as under siege.
- Subject
- psoriatic; masculinity; male hysteric; male social body
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1044072
- Identifier
- uon:14284
- Identifier
- ISSN:1325-1848
- Language
- eng
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