| Description |
xvi, 303 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Queer belongings : the politics of departure / Elspeth Probyn -- The 'cunning lingua' of desire : bodies-language and perverse performativity / Dianne Chisholm -- Sextec : excerpt from Working hot / Mary Fallon -- Lesbian bodies : tribades, tomboys and tarts / Barbara Creed -- Teledildonics : virtual lesbians in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson / Lisa Moore -- Green night of Labyrinth Park : la nuit verte du Parc Labyrinthe / Nicole Brossard -- Acts of creation : the brainchildren of certain psychoanalytic fictions / Anna Gibbs -- 'I embrace the difference' : Elizabeth Taylor and the closet / Melissa Jane Hardie -- Pariah bodies / Sue Golding -- Sexualizing space / Sue Best -- The jewels in the crotch : the imperial erotic in The Haj Quartet / Sabina Sawhney -- Girls on a wired screen : Cavani's cinema and lesbian s/m / Chantal Nadeau -- I used to be your sweet mama : ideology, sexuality and domesticity in the blues of Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey and Bessie Smith / Angela Y. Davis -- Destruction : boundary erotics and refigurations of the heterosexual male body / Catherine Waldby -- Animal sex : libido as desire and death / Elizabeth Grosz |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Sexuality |
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Sexuality |
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Sexuality |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Homosexuality. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00070878
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| Subject |
Lesbian feminism.
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Homosexuality.
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Lesbianism.
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Lesbian feminists
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Sex.
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| Author |
Grosz, E. A. (Elizabeth A.)
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Probyn, Elspeth, 1958-
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| LC no. |
94036929 |
| ISBN |
0415098025 |
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0415098033 (paperback) |
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