Talking Bodies IV
Rage and Care Against the Machine
Published on 14. May 2026
Book
Hardback
242 pages
978-1-350-55147-3 (ISBN)
Description
Talking Bodies IV: Rage and Care Against the Machine is a bold intervention against global antifeminism. In these open access contributions, scholars, artists and activists from around the world - with their specific embodied perspectives - expose systems of oppression they come up against with despair, fear, exhaustion and rage. Instead of fixing what's trying to break them, they call out violent norms in order to make them assailable and ultimately overcome them.
Emerging from a global community that first came together at Talking Bodies, an international, interdisciplinary project with a biennial conference, this new volume continues the ethos of this community, striving to improve equality and equity for different bodies, by exploring how we move through and negotiate with the world around us.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Emerging from a global community that first came together at Talking Bodies, an international, interdisciplinary project with a biennial conference, this new volume continues the ethos of this community, striving to improve equality and equity for different bodies, by exploring how we move through and negotiate with the world around us.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Reviews / Votes
A compelling exploration of how systems of oppression inscribe themselves upon marginalised bodies. This collection masterfully traces the intersections of contemporary and historical social change across international contexts, offering vital insights into embodied experiences of structural inequality. * Ciara L. Murphy, Technological University Dublin, Ireland * Talking Bodies IV is a rich and needed collection that brings together an impressive, interdisciplinary, and international group of contributors. They join in their feminist concern to demonstrate how gender-diverse, reproductive, racialized, and disabled bodies negotiate constraint, carve out agency, and generate new modes of resistance in an increasingly hostile political climate shaped by Trumpism. Exposing systems of oppression while offering imaginative, solidarity-based practices of care and resilience, the volume stands as a testament to the power of collective feminist inquiry and an indispensable contribution to contemporary body studies. * Ralph J. Poole , University of Salzburg, Austria * The human body is many things, it is not a simple binary. It is a space of challenge, exploration, growth and opportunity. This book takes the reader on an important journey of discovery, exploration and affirmation. * Nancy Hansen, University of Manitoba, Canada *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-55147-3 (9781350551473)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Elisabeth Lechner is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria. Situated between cultural, literary and gender studies, her research focuses on digital activisms, body positivity, and British culinary life writing.
Holly F. Royle is an interdisciplinary PhD student at the Institute of Gender Studies and Department of Popular Music at the University of Chester, UK.
Holly F. Royle is an interdisciplinary PhD student at the Institute of Gender Studies and Department of Popular Music at the University of Chester, UK.
Content
Dedication
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I - Gender: Bodies beyond binaries
Chapter 1 Forced intelligibility and rhetorical-epistemic oppression - Flora Loeffelmann, University of Vienna, Austria
Chapter 2 The liminal space of transgender dancers within cultural cisgenderism in Equality Dancesport -Yen Nee Wong, University of Leeds, UK
Chapter 3 Tomboy objects: queer objects and orientations in the tomboy narratives of Annie Lanzilloto's L is for Lion and Ivan Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide -Kimberley Mather, University of Manchester, UK
Chapter 4 Queer selves: Michelle Cliff's West Indian female representations in Abeng -Sofia Gkertzou, at Zosimaia Public Historical Library of Ioannina, Greece
Part II - Reproduction: Bodies between life and death
Chapter 5 Blood on our hands: Stillbirth, motherhood and gendered medical neglect in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Midwife to the Fairies and Deirdre Sullivan's 'Pearleen'. -Grainne Ni Nuallain, University College Dublin, Ireland
Chapter 6 Fertility tracking apps as a remedy for an imperfect reproductive body -Sofia Zettermark, Lund University, Sweden
Chapter 7 Shopping while Black: the surveillance of Black girlhood and womanhood in Courtney Faye Taylor's Concentrate -Carla Abella Rodriguez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Part III - Othering: Bodies between conformity and resistance
Chapter 8 "You look like a whore": Tart cards in the archives -Sam Saunders
Chapter 9 #NoSpoonsLeftOnlyKnives: How disabled creators are fighting ableism with hashtag campaigns -Kristen Tollan, York University, Canada
Chapter 10 'Presentable' and 'well-groomed': the gendered body on the retail shopfloor -Ipsita Pradhan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India
Chapter 11 Dance in the light and heal: embodied performance practice as connection -Nicola Forshaw and Morag Galloway, York St John University, UK
Epilogue
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I - Gender: Bodies beyond binaries
Chapter 1 Forced intelligibility and rhetorical-epistemic oppression - Flora Loeffelmann, University of Vienna, Austria
Chapter 2 The liminal space of transgender dancers within cultural cisgenderism in Equality Dancesport -Yen Nee Wong, University of Leeds, UK
Chapter 3 Tomboy objects: queer objects and orientations in the tomboy narratives of Annie Lanzilloto's L is for Lion and Ivan Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide -Kimberley Mather, University of Manchester, UK
Chapter 4 Queer selves: Michelle Cliff's West Indian female representations in Abeng -Sofia Gkertzou, at Zosimaia Public Historical Library of Ioannina, Greece
Part II - Reproduction: Bodies between life and death
Chapter 5 Blood on our hands: Stillbirth, motherhood and gendered medical neglect in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Midwife to the Fairies and Deirdre Sullivan's 'Pearleen'. -Grainne Ni Nuallain, University College Dublin, Ireland
Chapter 6 Fertility tracking apps as a remedy for an imperfect reproductive body -Sofia Zettermark, Lund University, Sweden
Chapter 7 Shopping while Black: the surveillance of Black girlhood and womanhood in Courtney Faye Taylor's Concentrate -Carla Abella Rodriguez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Part III - Othering: Bodies between conformity and resistance
Chapter 8 "You look like a whore": Tart cards in the archives -Sam Saunders
Chapter 9 #NoSpoonsLeftOnlyKnives: How disabled creators are fighting ableism with hashtag campaigns -Kristen Tollan, York University, Canada
Chapter 10 'Presentable' and 'well-groomed': the gendered body on the retail shopfloor -Ipsita Pradhan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India
Chapter 11 Dance in the light and heal: embodied performance practice as connection -Nicola Forshaw and Morag Galloway, York St John University, UK
Epilogue
Index