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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.
From the Back Cover
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.
About the Author
Sue Best, University of Western Sydney; Dianne Chisholm, University of Alberta; Barbara Creed, La Trobe University, Melbourne; Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz; Anna Gibbs, University of Western Sydney; Sue Golding, Greenwich University; Elizabeth Grosz, Monash University, Australia; Melissa Jane Hardie, University of Woolongong; Lisa Moore, University of Texas; Chantal Nadeau, Concordia University; Elspeth Probyn, University of Montreal; Sabina Sawhney, Daemen College; Catherine Waldby, Murdoch University