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Uncontrollable bodies : testimonies of identity and culture / edited by Rodney Sappington and Tyler Stallings.

Title
Uncontrollable bodies : testimonies of identity and culture / edited by Rodney Sappington and Tyler Stallings.
Publication
Seattle : Bay Press, c1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Sappington, Rodney.
  • Stallings, Tyler
Description
283 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"This collection of original writings and artwork challenges commonly held definitions of the body. Filmmakers, poets, visual and performance artists, sex workers, activists, and cultural critics employ outrage and analysis to investigate the body as a source of identity and an object of social control"--Back cover.
Subject
  • Gender identity > United States
  • Mind and body > United States
  • Popular culture > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Heroic measures / Robert Flynt -- Dense moments / Gregg Bordowitz -- An impossible man / Lynne Tillman -- With curse, or love / Trinh T. Minh-ha ; photo and text design by Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier -- Revenge of The leech woman : on the dread of aging in a low-budget horror film / Vivian Sobchack -- X-bodies (the torment of the mutant superhero) / Scott Bukatman -- Cracked open by the senses / Rodney Sappington -- Born of normal parents / Louise Diedrich -- Love poems inspired by staring too hard at Thomas, a photograph by Sharon Lockhart / Dennis Cooper -- On splitting : a symptomatology, or, The Los Angeles maternal position / Leslie Dick ; with photographs by Elizabeth Pulsinelli -- A strangely haunting love / Tyler Stallings -- Laying me down / Carla Kirkwood -- Cuerpo politizado / Luis Alfaro -- Thanks, ma / Carol Leigh (Scarlot Harlot) -- Hole / Alan Sondheim.
ISBN
0941920275
LCCN
^^^94017123^
OCLC
  • 30518095
  • SCSB-11299270
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library