Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory
In many fields, the body is the topic generating exciting new research and interdisciplinary inquiry. Feminist theorists, in particular, have focused on the female body as the site where representations of difference and identity are inscribed. Drawn from a broad range of disciplines, Writing on the Body explores the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body. The volume includes classic and contemporary essays on rape,...
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Exploring the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body, this volume——complete with editors' introduction——includes classic and contemporary essays on rape, pornography, eroticism, anorexia, body building, menstruation, and maternity, and challenges racial, class, and sexual categories.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause152Rape: On Coercion and Consent423Mothers, Monsters, and Machines594Corporeal Representation in/and the Body Politic805The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity906Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace1137Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power1298On Being the Object of Property1559Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator17610The Body and Cinema: Some Problems for Feminism19511Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film20812Ain't I a Woman?23113La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness23314This Sex Which Is Not One24815Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: The Case of Anna O.25716Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power27717The Persistence of Vision28318Carnal Acts29619One is Not Born a Woman30920Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory31821The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto33722A Provoking Agent: The Pornography and Performance Art of Annie Sprinkle36023Tracking the Vampire38024Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory401Suggestions for Further Reading419About the Contributors427
