Books
- Paperback Edition
- ISBN: 978-1-55861-551-9
- Publication Date: 06-01-2007
- Page Count: 192
- Categories: Art/Film/Performance, Feminist Theory, Health/Medicine, History, LGBTQ, WSQ
The Sexual Body
The mid-1970s feminist critique of the female body, sex, and pornography ignited a debate that has continued to this day. Through critical essays, fiction, poetry, and images, this provocative issue of WSQ probes this territory in the light of emerging areas of study.
Engaging the fields of critical race studies, film studies, history, literary criticism, performance studies, and political theory, The Sexual Body energizes the debates on the status of sex, pleasure, power, and desire. Ranging from soul food to dance hall music to new discussions of female- and transgender-directed pornography, this issue mobilizes cutting-edge feminist, race, and queer scholarship to push critical theories of the body to their limits and anticipates where race and sex will inform the next generation.
The review praises HIS OWN WHERE, calling it a "fantastic book filled with small, unique scenes and daunting poetry."
BASE TEN written by Maryann Lesert has been named Essential Reading by Literary Mama, a reading and literary website for the "maternally inclined."
Maya Nussbaum, executive director of Girls Write Now.
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