Full Description
Talking Bodies IV: Rage and Care Against the Machine is a bold intervention against global antifeminism. In their contributions, scholars, artists and activists from around the world - with their specific embodied perspectives - expose systems of oppression they come up against with despair, fear, exhaustion and rage. Instead of fixing what's trying to break them, they call out violent norms in order to make them assailable and ultimately overcome them.
Emerging from a global community that first came together at Talking Bodies, an international, interdisciplinary project with a biennial conference, this new volume continues the ethos of this community, striving to improve equality and equity for different bodies, by exploring how we move through and negotiate with the world around us.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword by Emma Rees, University of Chester, UK
Introduction - Elisabeth Lechner, University of Vienna, Austria, and Holly F. Royle, University of Chester, UK
Part I - Reproductive Bodies
Chapter 1 Blood on Our Hands: Stillbirth, Motherhood and Gendered Medical Neglect in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Midwife to the Fairies and Deirdre Sullivan's Pearleen. Gráinne Ní Nuallåin, University College Dublin, Ireland
Chapter 2 'Is it just a figment of my imagination?' Narrating Lived Experiences of Hormonal Contraceptives in Sweden. Sofia Zettermark, Lund University, Sweden
Part II - Gendered/Queer Bodies
Chapter 3 Forced Intelligibility and Rhetorical-Epistemic Oppression. Flora Loffelmann, University of Vienna, Austria.
Chapter 4 The liminal space of transgender dancers within cultural cisgenderism in Equality Dancesport. Yen Nee Wong, University of Leeds, UK
Chapter 5 Tomboy Objects: Queer Objects and Orientations in the Tomboy Narratives of Annie Lanzilloto's L is for Lion and Ivan Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide. Kimberley Mather, University of Manchester, UK
Part III - Black Female Bodies & Sexuality
Chapter 6 Shopping while Black: The Surveillance of Black Girlhood and Womanhood in Courtney Faye Taylor's Concentrate. Carla Abella Rodríguez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Chapter 7 Demystifying the Vagina: Blackness and the complexities of reproductive feminisms. Nerea Amisi Okong'o, University of Manchester, UK
Chapter 8 Queer Selves: Michelle Cliff's West Indian Female Representations in Abeng. Sofia Gkertzou, Zosimaia Public Historical Library of Ioannina, Greece.
Part IV - Conforming to/Resisting Society's Gaze
Chapter 9 "You look like a whore": Tart cards in the archives. Sam Saunders, University of Essex, UK
Chapter 10 #No Spoons Left, Only Knives: How disabled creators are fighting ableism with hashtag campaigns. Kristen Tollan, York University, Canada
Chapter 11 Presentable and Well-Groomed: The Gendered Body on the Retail Shopfloor. Ipsita Pradhan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India
Part V - Performing Bodies
Chapter 12 Dance in the Light and Heal: Embodied Performance Practice as Connection. Nicola Forshaw & Morag Galloway, York St John University, UK
Epilogue
Index
