Indeterminate Bodies

NAOMI SEGAL is Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading where she founded and directs the MA in The Body and Representation. She has published numerous articles and is the author or editor of nine other books, including Narcissus and Echo (1988); Freud in Exile (1988); The Adulteress's Child (1992); Scarlet Letters (1997); Coming Out of Feminism? (1998); Andre Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy (1998) and Le Desir a l'oeuvre (2000). - LIB TAYLOR is a Senior Lecturer in theatre in the Department of Film and Drama at the University of Reading. She has published on women dramatists since 1958, the theory and practice of women's theatre, contemporary performance and deaf sign languages in theatre. She has also edited several volumes of plays including some by Caryl Churchill. She is a theatre director and some of her research takes the form of performance practice. - ROGER COOK teaches Lesbian and Gay Studies in the MA on The Body and Representation and is a Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Reading. He has published articles and conference papers relating the work of Pierre Bourdieu to the field of contemporary art and is completing a PhD thesis in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Reading. He made brief appearances in some films of the late Derek Jarman, notably, The Garden in which he appeared as Jesus Christ.

• Introduction; L.Taylor, N.Segal & R.Cook Prefatory Essay: The Tale of Nema; R. Stainton Rogers & W.Stainton Rogers On Wanting a Child or: An Idea of Desire; K.Lesnik-Oberstein Where is Action Man's Penis? Determinations of Gender; J. Bignell The Ideology of the Genderless Sporting Body: Reflections on the Czech State-Socialist Concept of Physical Culture; L.Oates-Indruchová 'Lying Beneath Me She is Only a Shape': Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and the Representation of Madness; A.Scott Determined Indeterminacy in the Work of Lari Pittman; R.Cook 'The Some had Rather it Were She than I ': Sexing the Textual Body; N.Segal Not from Adam's Rib: The Origins of Transgender Surgery in Weimar Culture; S.L.Gilman 'Sweet Hee-She-Coupled-One': Unspeakable Hermaphrodites; C.Williams In/determinacy in Cyberspace; F.Froy Flaunting the Feminine; M.Meagher Shape-Shifting and Role-Splitting: Theatre, Body and Identity; L.Taylor Unhomely Bodies and Dislocated Identities in the Drama of Frank McGuinness and Marina Carr; A.McMullan Blindness and the Politics of the Gaze; D.Forgacs Bodies in Transition, or the Unbearable Lightness of the Transitionless Self; M.Csabai & F.Erös Revolution in Video Dance: The Construction of a Fluid Body; S.Dodds