Acknowledgements | |
Openings on the Body: A Critical Introduction | p. 1 |
Woman as Body? | p. 15 |
'Theories of Gender and Race' | p. 21 |
'Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views' | p. 32 |
'Bodies and Biology' | p. 42 |
'My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology?' | p. 50 |
'Our Bodies, Ourselves: Why We Should Add Old Fashioned Empirical Phenomenology to the New Theories of the Body' | p. 64 |
Sexy Bodies | p. 77 |
'When Our Lips Speak Together' | p. 82 |
'The Nose' and 'Taste' | p. 91 |
'Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence' | p. 93 |
'Body Matters: Cultural Inscriptions' | p. 105 |
'Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts' | p. 111 |
'F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity' | p. 125 |
'NO BODY is "Doing It": Cybersexuality' | p. 134 |
'The Hot Rod Bodies of Cybersex' | p. 140 |
Bodies in Science and Biomedicine | p. 143 |
'A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer' | p. 149 |
'Breast Cancer: An Adventure in Applied Deconstruction' | p. 153 |
'Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality' | p. 157 |
'Menopause: The Storm before the Calm' | p. 169 |
'The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles' | p. 179 |
'Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies' | p. 190 |
'The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse' | p. 203 |
After the Binary | p. 215 |
'Bodies, Identities, Feminisms' | p. 220 |
'Power, Bodies and Difference' | p. 227 |
'Bodies that Matter' | p. 235 |
'Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body' | p. 246 |
'Write Your Body' and 'The Body in Theory' | p. 258 |
'Psychoanalysis and the Body' | p. 267 |
Alter/ed Bodies | p. 273 |
'Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture' | p. 278 |
'Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: On Teratology and Embodied Differences' | p. 290 |
'Interview from Warrior Marks' | p. 302 |
'The Trials of the Black African Woman' | p. 309 |
'The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror' | p. 311 |
'Feminism, Disability, and Transcendence of the Body' | p. 324 |
BodySpaceMatter | p. 335 |
'Her Body/Her Boundaries' | p. 341 |
'Women and Everyday Spaces' | p. 359 |
'Surviving Rape: A Morning/Mourning Ritual' | p. 371 |
'Bodies-Cities' | p. 381 |
'Mapping the Colonial Body: Sexual Economies and the State in Colonial India' | p. 388 |
'Woman, Nation and Narration in Midnight's Children' | p. 399 |
Performing the Body | p. 411 |
'Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions' | p. 416 |
'The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing' | p. 423 |
'Breaking the Boundaries of the Broken Body' | p. 432 |
'Feminine Charms and Outrageous Arms' | p. 445 |
'"My Body is my Art": Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?' | p. 454 |
'"Freud's Fetishism" and the Lesbian Dildo Debates' | p. 466 |
Copyright Acknowledgements | p. 477 |
Subject Index | p. 481 |
Name Index | p. 485 |
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