Solomon-Godeau, Abigail — Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation

New York, Thames & Hudson, 1997. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of the feminist art historian extraordinaire, Dr. Whitney Chadwick, a giant across many fields and whose blurb graces the rear panel. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, fully intact and untrameled. From the publisher's blurb, "Why did the male nude dominate French art throughout the French Revolution and then largely disappear? In this pioneering book which challenges received ideas about masculinity and Neoclassical visual culture, Abigail Solomon-Godeau shows how the masculine ideal, whether in the guise of virile heroes or passive youths, then or now, raises important questions about the fashioning of masculinity itself." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.264 pp. [6], 7-264 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,