Sexy Bodies - The Strange Carnalities of Feminism

Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores what runs underneath and within all sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally weird and strange about all bodies, all carnalities.

Looking at a pleasurable variety of cultural forms and texts, the contributors consider the particular charms of girls and horses, from National Velvet to Marnie; discuss figures of the lesbian body from vampires to tribades to tomboys; uncover 'virtual' lesbians in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson; track desire in the music of legendary Blues singers; and investigate the ever-scrutinised and celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection includes two important pieces of fiction by Mary Fallon and Nicole Brossard.

Sexy Bodies makes new connections between and amongst bodies, cruising the borders of the obscene, the pleasurable, the desirable and the hitherto unspoken rethinking sexuality anew as deeply and strangely sexy.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Queer Belongings, Elspeth Probyn; Chapter 2 The 'Cunning Lingua' of Desire, Dianne Chisholm; Chapter 3 Sextec, Mary Fallon; Chapter 4 Lesbian Bodies, Barbara Creed; Chapter 5 Teledildonics, Lisa Moore; Chapter 6 Green Night of Labyrinth Park, Nicole Brassard, Lou Nelson; Chapter 7 Acts of Creation, Anna Gibbs; Chapter 8 'I Embrace the Difference', Melissa Jane Hardie; Chapter 9 Pariah Bodies, Sue Golding; Chapter 10 Sexualizing Space, Sue Best; Chapter 11 The Jewels in the Crotch, Sabina Sawhney; Chapter 12 Girls on a Wired Screen, Chantal Nadeau; Chapter 13 I used to be your Sweet Mama, Angela Y. Davis; Chapter 14 Destruction, Catherine Waldby; Chapter 15 Animal Sex, Elizabeth Grosz;

About the author

Elizabeth Grosz, Elspeth Probyn

Product details

• Assisted by: Elizabeth Grosz (Editor), Elspeth Probyn (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.1995
• EAN: 9780415098038
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09803-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 590 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Cultural Studies, FICTION / Erotica / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, ART / Popular Culture, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Psychology: sexual behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Sex and sexuality: advice and issues, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Erotic fiction / Erotica