1st Edition

Sexy Bodies The Strange Carnalities of Feminism

Edited By Elizabeth Grosz, Elspeth Probyn Copyright 1995
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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;

Biography

Elizabeth Grosz, Elspeth Probyn