Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism

by Elspeth Probyn and Elizabeth Grosz

Book Overview

Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores what runs underneath and within all sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally weird and strange about all bodies, all carnalities.

Looking at a pleasurable variety of cultural forms and texts,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415098033
• ISBN13: 9780415098038
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"