Talking Bodies

1. Varieties of Embodiment and ‘Corporeal Style’
Emma Rees

2. Edith Wharton: An Heiress to Gay Male Sexual Radicalism?
Naomi Wolf

3. Losing Face Among the Natives: ‘Something About Tattooing and Tabooing’ in Melville’s Typee

Graham Atkin

4. What the Body Tells Us: Transgender Strategies, Beauty, and Self-consciousness
Marzia Mauriello

5. Tattoos: An Embodiment of Desire
Nina Nyman

6. Learning Womanhood: Body Modification, Girls and Identity
Abigail Tazzyman

7. The Construction of a Personal Norm of Physical and Psychological ‘Well-Being’ in Female Discourse
Maria Krebber

8. No Body, No Crime? (Representations of) Sexual Violence Online
Jemma Tosh

9. Heteronormativity as a Painful Script: How Women with Vulvar Pain (re)Negotiate Sexual Practice
Renita Sörensdotter

10. Queer Wounds: Writing Autobiography Past the Limits of Language
Quinn Eades

11. The Trouble with Body Image: The Need for a Better Corporeal Vocabulary
Melisa Trujillo

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Cultural Theory, Feminism, Sociology of the Body