Talking Bodies IV by Lechner, Elisabeth; Royle, Holly F.;

Short description:

A bold intervention against global antifeminism, centering on diverse body/minds who come up against oppressive systems and who build inclusive futures with radical care.

Long description:

Talking Bodies IV: Rage and Care Against the Machine is a bold intervention against global antifeminism. In these open access 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.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Table of Contents:

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Dedication
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I - Gender: Bodies beyond binaries
Chapter 1 Forced intelligibility and rhetorical-epistemic oppression - Flora Löffelmann, University of Vienna, Austria
Chapter 2 The liminal space of transgender dancers within cultural cisgenderism in Equality Dancesport -Yen Nee Wong, University of Leeds, UK
Chapter 3 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
Chapter 4 Queer selves: Michelle Cliff's West Indian female representations in Abeng -Sofia Gkertzou, at Zosimaia Public Historical Library of Ioannina, Greece
Part II - Reproduction: Bodies between life and death
Chapter 5 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 6 Fertility tracking apps as a remedy for an imperfect reproductive body -Sofia Zettermark, Lund University, Sweden
Chapter 7 Shopping while Black: the surveillance of Black girlhood and womanhood in Courtney Faye Taylor's Concentrate -Carla Abella Rodríguez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Part III - Othering: Bodies between conformity and resistance
Chapter 8 ""You look like a whore"": Tart cards in the archives -Sam Saunders
Chapter 9 #NoSpoonsLeftOnlyKnives: How disabled creators are fighting ableism with hashtag campaigns -Kristen Tollan, York University, Canada
Chapter 10 'Presentable' and 'well-groomed': the gendered body on the retail shopfloor -Ipsita Pradhan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India
Chapter 11 Dance in the light and heal: embodied performance practice as connection -Nicola Forshaw and Morag Galloway, York St John University, UK
Epilogue
Index