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...
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Are bodies sexy? How, and in what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, sexualities of all kinds--dyke, bisexual, transracial, even heterosexual. While celebrating lesbian and queer sexualities, Sexy Bodies also explores what runs underneath and within all sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally 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 tomboys; uncover "virtual" lesbians in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson; track desire in the music of legendary Blues singers; and investigate the ever-scrutinized and celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection also includes two important pieces of fiction by Mary Fallon and Nicole Brossard.Sexy Bodies makes new connections between and among bodies, cruising the borders of the obscene, the pleasurable, the desirable, and the unspoken, rethinking sexuality anew, as deeply and stangely sexy.Contributors: Sue Best, Nicole Brossard, Dianne Chisholm, Barbara Creed, Angela Davis, Mary Fallon, Anna Gibbs, Sue Golding, Elizabeth Grosz, Melissa Jane Hardie, Lisa Moore, Chantal Nadeau, Elspeth Probyn, Sabina Sawhney, Catherine Waldby
Notes on contributorsIntroductionEditors' acknowledgements1Queer Belongings: The Politics of Departure12The 'Cunning Lingua' of Desire: Bodies-Language and Perverse Performativity193Sextec: Excerpt from Working Hot424Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts865Teledildonics: Virtual Lesbians in the Fiction of Jeanette Winterson1046Green Night of Labyrinth Park: La Nuit Verte Du Parc Labyrinthe1287Acts of Creation: The Brainchildren of Certain Psychoanalytic Fictions1378'I Embrace the Difference': Elizabeth Taylor and the Closet1559Pariah Bodies17210Sexualizing Space18111The Jewels in the Crotch: The Imperial Erotic in the Raj Quartet19512Girls on a Wired Screen: Cavani's Cinema and Lesbian S/M21113I Used to be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality and Domesticity in the Blues of Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey and Bessie Smith23114Destruction: Boundary Erotics and Refigurations of the Heterosexual Male Body26615Animal Sex: Libido as Desire and Death278Index300
