Talking Bodies IV

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.

• List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Foreword by Emma Rees, University of Chester, UK Introduction - Elisabeth Lechner, University of Vienna, Austria, and Holly F. Royle, University of Chester, UKPart I - Reproductive Bodies Chapter 1 Blood on Our Hands: Stillbirth, Motherhood and Gendered Medical Neglect in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Midwife to the Fairies and Deirdre Sullivan's Pearleen. Gráinne Ní Nuallåin, University College Dublin, IrelandChapter 2 ‘Is it just a figment of my imagination?’ Narrating Lived Experiences of Hormonal Contraceptives in Sweden. Sofia Zettermark, Lund University, SwedenPart II - Gendered/Queer Bodies Chapter 3 Forced Intelligibility and Rhetorical-Epistemic Oppression. Flora Loffelmann, University of Vienna, Austria.Chapter 4 The liminal space of transgender dancers within cultural cisgenderism in Equality Dancesport. Yen Nee Wong, University of Leeds, UKChapter 5 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, UKPart III - Black Female Bodies & Sexuality Chapter 6 Shopping while Black: The Surveillance of Black Girlhood and Womanhood in Courtney Faye Taylor’s Concentrate. Carla Abella Rodríguez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain Chapter 7 Demystifying the Vagina: Blackness and the complexities of reproductive feminisms. Nerea Amisi Okong’o, University of Manchester, UKChapter 8 Queer Selves: Michelle Cliff's West Indian Female Representations in Abeng. Sofia Gkertzou, Zosimaia Public Historical Library of Ioannina, Greece.Part IV - Conforming to/Resisting Society’s GazeChapter 9 “You look like a whore”: Tart cards in the archives. Sam Saunders, University of Essex, UKChapter 10 #No Spoons Left, Only Knives: How disabled creators are fighting ableism with hashtag campaigns. Kristen Tollan, York University, CanadaChapter 11 Presentable and Well-Groomed: The Gendered Body on the Retail Shopfloor. Ipsita Pradhan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune, IndiaPart V - Performing Bodies Chapter 12 Dance in the Light and Heal: Embodied Performance Practice as Connection. Nicola Forshaw & Morag Galloway, York St John University, UKEpilogue Index