1st Edition

Performing the Penis Phalluses in 21st Century Cultures

Edited By Meredith Jones, Evelyn Callahan Copyright 2023
176 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book will be the first collection that offers an overview and case studies around understandings and manifestations of penises and phalluses in the early twenty-first century. It examines how penises and phalluses are experienced and represented, drawing on examples from pornography, stripping, music video, film, surgery, and comedy. The penis—along with its twin the phallus—has been used to... Read more

Introduction

Meredith Jones and Evelyn Callahan

1. The Phallus: Power and Vulnerability

David Kreps and Caroline Ruddell

2. The Foetus Phallus Studio

Anna Gonzalez Suero

3. Knowing, Visibility and A Comedic Penis

Adam Eldridge

4. ‘The Easy Way Out’: Vasectomies in Sociopornographic Magazines

Jonathan A. Allan

5. Hung Jury: Queer Verdicts of Sex Reassignment Surgery Versus Trans Men’s Surgical Journeys

Trystan Cotton

6. The Penis in the Medical Imagination

Evelyn Callahan and David Griffiths

7. Playing with Penises: Gigantic and Miniature Phallic Performances

Meredith Jones and Kieran Sellars

8. ‘I Do What I Know How To Do’: Performing the Penis in Key West*

Tim Dean

Biography

Meredith Jones is Director of the Institute of Communities and Society at Brunel University London, UK.

Evelyn Callahan is a Research Fellow at The Open University.