Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. Foreword xix
7. Introduction 1
8. I Scrawl 25
9. 1 The intelligent hand 27
10. 2 Without word without voice blind gesture 36
11. 3 ‘Language, of course, being gesture’ 47
12. 4 Writing dreaming drawing 59
13. II Caress 73
14. 5 Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman’s autoerotic attentions 75
15. 6 The massage is the medium 92
16. 7 Et in arcadia xerox 99
17. III Mutter 113
18. 8 My chimeras 115
19. 9 Speaking silence 122
20. 10 Mamaiaith 130
21. 11 Cliché is the sediment of sentiment that collects in my ear 139
22. 12 ‘The strength of the gesture to move like a poem’ 148
23. IV Scratch 163
24. 13 My skin is a riot 165
25. 14 Cutting into unmarked pleasures 184
26. 15 Learning from silent teachers 197
27. 16 Returning to the scene of hurt 206
28. V Reach 219
29. 17 Gestures for feminist transmissions 221
30. 18 Between the departures and arrivals 231
31. 19 Feminism’s un/common rituals 242
32. 20 ‘I want a literature that is not made from literature’ 251
33. VI Dialogues on gesture 265
34. 21 ‘Flight [Gestures] in a Galaxy of Centres’ 267
35. 22 So many social things happen with a bent head 286
36. 23 In excess of the one, two 296
37. 24 Gesture, a build 312
38. Afterword 317
39. Index 322