ENGL 101 Chapter : Theroux Being A Man
15 Mar 2019
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Paul theroux ( 1 9 4 1 - ) w a s born in massachussetts and received his b. a. from the university of massachussetts. Theroux is known for his fiction, literary criticism, a n d travel writing. The following selection w a s first published in 1983 in the new york times magazine. There is a pathetic sentence in the chapter "fetishism" in dr. norman cameron"s book. It goes, "fetishists are nearly always men; and their commonest fetish is a woman"s shoe. " I cannot read that sentence without thinking that it is just one more awful thing about being a man and perhaps it is an important thing to know about us. The whole idea of manhood in america is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one"s entire life (by contrast, i imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).
