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.
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.
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A compelling exploration of how systems of oppression inscribe themselves upon marginalised bodies. This collection masterfully traces the intersections of contemporary and historical social change across international contexts, offering vital insights into embodied experiences of structural inequality. * Ciara L. Murphy, Technological University Dublin, Ireland * Talking Bodies IV is a rich and needed collection that brings together an impressive, interdisciplinary, and international group of contributors. They join in their feminist concern to demonstrate how gender-diverse, reproductive, racialized, and disabled bodies negotiate constraint, carve out agency, and generate new modes of resistance in an increasingly hostile political climate shaped by Trumpism. Exposing systems of oppression while offering imaginative, solidarity-based practices of care and resilience, the volume stands as a testament to the power of collective feminist inquiry and an indispensable contribution to contemporary body studies. * Ralph J. Poole , University of Salzburg, Austria * The human body is many things, it is not a simple binary. It is a space of challenge, exploration, growth and opportunity. This book takes the reader on an important journey of discovery, exploration and affirmation. * Nancy Hansen, University of Manitoba, Canada *
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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.
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 Lanzillotos L is for Lion and Ivan Coyotes 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 Dhuibhnes 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 Taylors 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
Elisabeth Lechner is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria. Situated between cultural, literary and gender studies, her research focuses on digital activisms, body positivity, and British culinary life writing.
Holly F. Royle is an interdisciplinary PhD student at the Institute of Gender Studies and Department of Popular Music at the University of Chester, UK.
