Overview

"Are bodies sexy? How, and in what sorts of ways? This text 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 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-scrutinized and celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection includes two pieces of fiction by Mary Fallon and Nicole Brossard."

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Author:   Elizabeth Grosz ,  Elspeth Probyn
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780415098038

ISBN 10:   0415098033
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   06 July 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table 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;

Reviews

... this collection of critical, queer, feminist, erotic writings is exceptional, bringing embodied clarity to critical thinking. Sexy Bodies transgresses the normative stylistic boundries of academic language and prose, re-formulating rather than re-defining how we can speak and think and write... Not content to write about sex and bodies, the editors asked the contributers to write as sex and bodies... the result is energizing.... this book accepts the indefinable, engorges us and consumes us. Much like good sex.... I savour this volume for its diversity in thought, culture, style, and vision of sexuality.. - Index Magazine Sexy Bodies is a wonderfully sexy, wonderfully smart, decidedly feminist, bold and fun book. -Jane Gallup, author of Around 1981 Sexy Bodiesi attempts to move beyond the current unsxy state of acdemic research on the body by exploring the production of sexulities instead of their dexription... Grosz and Probyn concieve of sexuality in the broadest possible thematic and methodological term. Charmaine Eddy, Canadian Literature, Winter 2001.

... this collection of critical, queer, feminist, erotic writings is exceptional, bringing embodied clarity to critical thinking. Sexy Bodies transgresses the normative stylistic boundries of academic language and prose, re-formulating rather than re-defining how we can speak and think and write... Not content to write about sex and bodies, the editors asked the contributers to write as sex and bodies... the result is energizing.... this book accepts the indefinable, engorges us and consumes us. Much like good sex.... I savour this volume for its diversity in thought, culture, style, and vision of sexuality.. <br>- Index Magazine <br> Sexy Bodies is a wonderfully sexy, wonderfully smart, decidedly feminist, bold and fun book. <br>-Jane Gallup, author of Around 1981 <br> Sexy Bodiesi attempts to move beyond the current unsxy state of acdemic research on the body by exploring the production of sexulities instead of their dexription... Grosz and Probyn concieve of sexuality in the broadest possible thematic and methodological term. Charmaine Eddy, Canadian Literature, Winter 2001. <br>

... this collection of critical, queer, feminist, erotic writings is exceptional, bringing embodied clarity to critical thinking. Sexy Bodies transgresses the normative stylistic boundries of academic language and prose, re-formulating rather than re-defining how we can speak and think and write... Not content to write about sex and bodies, the editors asked the contributers to write as sex and bodies... the result is energizing.... this book accepts the indefinable, engorges us and consumes us. Much like good sex.... I savour this volume for its diversity in thought, culture, style, and vision of sexuality.. - Index Magazine Sexy Bodies is a wonderfully sexy, wonderfully smart, decidedly feminist, bold and fun book. -Jane Gallup, author of Around 1981 Sexy Bodiesi attempts to move beyond the current unsxy state of acdemic research on the body by exploring the production of sexulities instead of their dexription... Grosz and Probyn concieve of sexuality in the broadest possible thematic and methodological term. Charmaine Eddy, Canadian Literature, Winter 2001.

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