Sexy Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz

Sexy Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz

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Through an examination of a variety of cultural forms and texts, Sexy Bodies investigates the ways in which sexual bodies, sexual practices and sexualities are produced.

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Sexy Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz

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.
Elizabeth Grosz, Elspeth Probyn
SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780415098038
ISBN 10 0415098033
Titre Sexy Bodies
Auteur Elizabeth Grosz
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Taylor & Francis Ltd
Année de publication 1995-07-06
Nombre de pages 320
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