I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Susan Bordos The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and Private. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Her idea relies on the entire belief that sex sales, which it does. Her thoughts go in-depth on this subject, as far as to say gay stylists helped the world along with this idea” (Spence, 2009).

The author was previously famous for her writings about women and feminism. The Male Body, however, presents a shift of focus from the female body to the male body. Bordo states the reason for this shift at the beginning of the chapter saying that after writing a lot about the female body she considered it to be a “natural, logical and almost inevitable step” (p. 130) to write about the male body. Initially, she wrote a review essay for Michigan Quarterly Review which was later converted into a book. We can say that “with The Male, Body Bordo shifts her focus from looking specifically at female and feminized bodies to looking at the male body from a female perspective” (Wikipedia 2009).

Bordo’s style is simple, friendly, and frank. Her analytical and argumentative ability is remarkable. She establishes a viewpoint and brings forward arguments both for and against a point in a skillful manner and ultimately takes her readers towards a conclusion. In the chapter under review, she starts the argument by saying that the business community in the post-modern world has started using the male bodies in movies and advertisements both as objects of pleasure and source of income. Bordo’s analysis is bold and straightforward, her discussion regarding shame, the gaze, and the erotic appeal of the ads is frank and enlightening. She proves her erudition by using allusions from the realm of psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, and media studies. She treats the subject of male representation in media from a poststructuralist point of view and endeavors to deconstruct the modern concept of male representation. Her argument is based on comparisons, contrasts, and cause, and affect theory. She has a knack for doing detailed and in-depth analysis which she attains through a vigilant and close analysis.

Historical Development of Representation of Male Body

Bordo’s statement sounds quite agreeable when she asserts that the use of the male body or manliness was introduced in the fifties by male clothing designers who broke the taboos against the explicit depiction of male organs and attaching feminine attributes to the males.