4.5 ‘Write Your Body’ and ‘The Body in Theory’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Openings on the Body: A Critical Introduction 1
5. Section 1: Woman as Body?
6. Introduction 17
7. 1.1 ‘Theories of Gender and Race’ 21
8. 1.2 ‘Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views’ 32
9. 1.3 ‘Bodies and Biology’ 42
10. 1.4 ‘My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology?’ 50
11. 1.5 ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves: Why We Should Add Old Fashioned Empirical Phenomenology to the New Theories of the Body’ 64
12. Section 2: Sexy Bodies
13. Introduction 79
14. 2.1 ‘When Our Lips Speak Together’ 82
15. 2.2 ‘The Nose’ and ‘Taste’ 91
16. 2.3 ‘Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence’ 93
17. 2.4 ‘Body Matters: Cultural Inscriptions’ 105
18. 2.5 ‘Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts’ 111
19. 2.6 ‘F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity’ 125
20. 2.7 ‘NO BODY is “Doing It”: Cybersexuality’ 134
21. 2.8 ‘The Hot Rod Bodies of Cybersex’ 140
22. Section 3: Bodies in Science and Biomedicine
23. Introduction 145
24. 3.1 ‘A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer’ 149
25. 3.2 ‘Breast Cancer: An Adventure in Applied Deconstruction’ 153
26. 3.3. ‘Natural Facts: A Historical Perspective on Science and Sexuality’ 157
27. 3.4 ‘Menopause: The Storm before the Calm’ 169
28. 3.5 ‘The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles’ 179
29. 3.6 ‘Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies’ 190
30. 3.7 ‘The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies: Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourse’ 203
31. Section 4: After the Binary
32. Introduction 217
33. 4.1 ‘Bodies, Identities, Feminisms’ 220
34. 4.2 ‘Power, Bodies and Difference’ 227
35. 4.3 ‘Bodies that Matter’ 235
36. 4.4 ‘Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body’ 246
37. 4.5 ‘Write Your Body’ and ‘The Body in Theory’ 258
38. 4.6 ‘Psychoanalysis and the Body’ 267
39. Section 5: Alter/ed Bodies
40. Introduction 275
41. 5.1 ‘Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture’ 278
42. 5.2 ‘Signs of Wonder and Traces of Doubt: On Teratology and Embodied Differences’ 290
43. 5.3 ‘Interview from Warrior Marks’ 302
44. 5.4 ‘The Trials of the Black African Woman’ 309
45. 5.5 ‘The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror’ 311
46. 5.6 ‘Feminism, Disability, and Transcendence of the Body’ 324
47. Section 6: BodySpaceMatter
48. Introduction 337
49. 6.1 ‘Her Body/Her Boundaries’ 341
50. 6.2 ‘Women and Everyday Spaces’ 359
51. 6.3 ‘Surviving Rape: A Morning/Mourning Ritual’ 371
52. 6.4 ‘Bodies-Cities’ 381
53. 6.5 ‘Mapping the Colonial Body: Sexual Economies and the State in Colonial India’ 388
54. 6.6 ‘Woman, Nation and Narration in Midnight's Children' 399
55. Section 7: Performing the Body
56. Introduction 413
57. 7.1 ‘Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions’ 416
58. 7.2 ‘The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross- Dressing’ 423
59. 7.3 ‘Breaking the Boundaries of the Broken Body’ 432
60. 7.4 ‘Feminine Charms and Outrageous Arms’ 445
61. 7.5 ‘“My Body is my Art”: Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?’ 454
62. 7.6 ‘“Freud’s Fetishism” and the Lesbian Dildo Debates’ 466
63. Copyright Acknowledgements 477
64. Subject Index 481
65. Name Index 485