Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality

by Avril Horner (Editor), Angela Keane (Editor)

Why do bodies matter? This collection of essays by feminists working in literary and cultural studies addresses this question from a range of theoretical perspectives. The collection includes essays by internationally-recognized critics who discuss current theoretical debates with sustained analysis of literary and other kinds of textual representations of "the body." The essays are organized into sections which consider the "matter" of the body from different and often conflicting perspectives.

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First published May 12, 2000

Reviews

[Beth Casserly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for a paper I was writing, which ended up taking days longer than planned because I kept getting distracted by the essays in this that, which not necessarily relevant to my topic, were just so interesting I couldn’t put the book away! I especially recommend the chapter by Sara Ahmed, it’s really wonderful and acts as a shorter precursor to her much larger and wonderful body of work.