… After reading this work one comes to realize the anus has been hidden in full view—seldom
truly analyzed but always present how we talk (and fail to talk) about the body. The anus and …

… This is a book worth reading for any student or scholar of cultural studies, popular culture,
film… Although much of Allan’s book is a thorough reading of the centered anus, he is often quite …

… In this daringly provocative study, he quite literally … the ass or the anus. The well-trodden
terrain that organizes the coordinates for both theorizing and meaning making in cultural studies …

… For Reading from Behind is less of a penetrating account of … which we have described the
rear, Jonathan Allan pursues … in "reading from behind"--since "we all have an anus regardless …

… form either of double entendres (Uranus or “your anus”, a joke likely to be lost on American
readers because in the UsA “anus” is a taboo word and Uranus is therefore mispronounced “…

… Writing and Gender and Women’s Studies at Brandon University, in Brandon, Manitoba.
He is the author of Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus.Jonathan A. Allan is …

Meghna Bohidar is a PhD scholar at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. Her
research interests include love/romance, bodies in public space, gender and Hindi cinema. …

… anus “must be controlled and ultimately repressed” beside the realization that we all have
one, then Reading from Behind … If read from behind, these anal characters become avatars of …

… the reading strategy that privileges certain cultural … As such, Allan argues, the anus has
the potential to destabilize … In reading 63: Dream Palace “from behind,” I propose to …