In recent years, questions concerning "the body" and its place
in postmodern discourses have taken center stage in academic
disciplines. Body Politics joins these discussions by focusing on
the challenges women face when their externally defined identities
and representations as bodies their body fictions speak louder than
what they know to be their true selves.
Racialized, gendered, or homophobic body fictions disfigure
individuals by placing them beneath a veil of invisibility and by
political, emotional, or spiritual suffocation. As objects of
interpretation, "female bodies" in search of health care, legal
assistance, professional respect, identity confirmation, and
financial security must first confront their fictionalized doubles
in a collision that, in many cases, ends in disappointment,
distress, and even suicide.
The contributors reflect on women s day-to-day lives and the
cultural productions (literature, MTV, film, etc.) that give body
fictions their power and influence. By exploring how these fictions
are manipulated politically, expressively, and communally, they
offer reinterpretations that challenge the fictional double while
theorizing the discursive and performative forms it takes.
Contributors include Trudier Harris, Maude Hines, S. Yumiko
Hulvey, Debra Walker King, Sue V. Rosser, Stephanie A. Smith,
Maureen Turim, Caroline Vercoe, Gloria Wade-Gayles, and Rosemary
Weatherston."
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