In-Between Bodies Sexual Difference, Race, and Sexuality

Name: In-Between Bodies Sexual Difference, Race, and Sexuality
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ISBN: 9780791472224

ISBN-10: 0791472221

ISBN-13: 9780791472224

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo

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"Residing between culture and nature, lived bodies are not fixed objects nor biological givens. In-Between Bodies examines "the body" in light of recent work in sexual difference theory and considers contributions provided by sexual difference frameworks, as well as their limits. Addressing how bodies reside outside of traditional categorization, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo reexamines issues of sex, gender, and race and maintains that while sexual difference theorists do account for positions that reside between traditional binaries, she points to lived bodies and experiences left unaccounted for. Drawing from theorists of transgendered and racialized identities, for example, this book helps…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 10/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 137
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.440



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Rethinking Bodies



Embodiment, Contingency, and Ambiguity


Sexual Difference and "the Body"


Contingency, Non-Neutrality, Sex/Gender


Ambiguity and Bodies



Irigaray's (Re)Figuring of Space-Time and Place


The Approach of Sexual Difference


Irigaray's Thinking Through Space-Time


Irigaray's (Re)Figuring of Place



Contingency and Race


Sexual Difference, Race, Bodies


The Contingency Relation and the In-Between


The Whiteness of Sexual Difference



Transgender Bodies


Body Theory and Disembodiment


Questioning Sexual Difference


A Coyote in Sheep's Clothing



Competing Narratives in LGBTQ Studies


Changing Sexualities, Changing Pedagogics


Teaching In-Between Identity and Anti-Identity


Final Thoughts on FemiQueer Pedagogies



The Trouble with "Queer"


Trans-Invisibility Revisited


Queerness, Heterosexism, Homophobia


Alphabet Soup


Conclusion: Reconfigured Identities


Notes


References


Index