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.

• DedicationList of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I – Gender: Bodies beyond binariesChapter 1 Forced intelligibility and rhetorical-epistemic oppression - Flora Löffelmann, University of Vienna, AustriaChapter 2 The liminal space of transgender dancers within cultural cisgenderism in Equality Dancesport -Yen Nee Wong, University of Leeds, UKChapter 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, UKChapter 4 Queer selves: Michelle Cliff's West Indian female representations in Abeng -Sofia Gkertzou, at Zosimaia Public Historical Library of Ioannina, GreecePart II – Reproduction: Bodies between life and deathChapter 5 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 6 Fertility tracking apps as a remedy for an imperfect reproductive body -Sofia Zettermark, Lund University, SwedenChapter 7 Shopping while Black: the surveillance of Black girlhood and womanhood in Courtney Faye Taylor’s Concentrate -Carla Abella Rodríguez, Universidad de Salamanca, SpainPart III - Othering: Bodies between conformity and resistanceChapter 8 “You look like a whore”: Tart cards in the archives -Sam SaundersChapter 9 #NoSpoonsLeftOnlyKnives: How disabled creators are fighting ableism with hashtag campaigns -Kristen Tollan, York University, CanadaChapter 10 ‘Presentable’ and ‘well-groomed’: the gendered body on the retail shopfloor -Ipsita Pradhan, Symbiosis Law School, Pune, IndiaChapter 11 Dance in the light and heal: embodied performance practice as connection -Nicola Forshaw and Morag Galloway, York St John University, UKEpilogueIndex

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.