Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Believing is Seeing
1. Complex Oedipus: Reading Sophocles, Testing Freud
2. Missing Links
3. The Fair Sex: It’s Not What You Think
4. In Defense of the Phallus
5. White Men Aren’t
5. White Men Aren’t

Afterword
Works Cited
Notes
Index

Promotional Information

A critical psychoanalytic account of white masculinity, which argues that it is incorrect to naturalize the power of masculinity and offers an alternative account.

About the Author

Thomas DiPiero is Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures and Associate Professor of both French and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569–1791 and coeditor of Illicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Europe.

Reviews

“This is an incredibly smart book, one that does an excellent job of joining its psychoanalytical with its historical and political arguments and offers surprising, provocative, and convincing conclusions.”—Sally Robinson, Texas A & M University

“White Men Aren't is a lively and original analysis of the crisis besetting white male identity. It encourages the reader to think outside the box and to consider the premises of naturalized categories of thought. DiPiero has made a significant contribution to the fields of gender and race studies.”—Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Boston College