What do narratives by British suffragettes of being forcibly fed
have in common with the representation of indigenous women in
Canadian police archives? How are literary representations of
domestic violence related to the use of silence as a strategy of
resistance in African American women's writing? How are modernist
fictions of gay male desire connected with ambiguous sexual
performances in rock music or with images of Vietnam veterans in
American horror movies? What does a narrative of women's
participation in Bengali national resistance movements share with
an ethnographic study of prostitution in Papua New Guinea?
These are the some of the specific questions raised by the
essays in this volume, which examines a wide variety of historical
and cultural locations where differently sexed, gendered, and
racialized bodies have been constructed. More generally, this
volume addresses theoretical debates over whether embodiment is
best understood through representations or performances. Are bodies
written or enacted? The different answers to these questions have
important consequences for how we understand the inscription of
bodies with systems of power and the possibilities that exist for
resisting those systems.
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