Corporeal Feminism Research Articles

Reviews

Norma Grieve & Ailsa Burns (eds), Australian Women: Contemporary Feminist Thought (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1994. Anna Yeatman, Postmodern Revisionings of the Political (Routledge) New York & London, 1994. Catherine Hall, White, Male and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History (Routledge) London & New York, 1992. C. Daley & M. Nolan (eds), Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives (Auckland University Press) Auckland, 1994. Judith A. Allen, Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism (Oxford University Press) Melbourne, 1994. Janette M. Bomford, That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein (Melbourne University Press) Carlton, 1993. Kay Ferres (ed.), The Time to Write: Australian Women Writers 1890–1930 (Penguin) Ringwood, 1994. Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath & Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation (McPhee Gribble/Penguin) Ringwood, 1994. Margaret‐Ann Franklin, Leonie M. Short, Elizabeth K. Tether (eds), Country Women at the Crossroads: Perspectives on the Lives of Rural Australian Women in the 1990s (University of New England Press) Armidale, 1994. Deborah Brennan, The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism (Cambridge University Press) Oakleigh, 1994. Christine Everingham, Motherhood and Modernity: An Investigation into the Rational Dimension of Mothering (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, 1994. Christine Sylvester, Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era (Cambridge University Press) Oakleigh, 1994. Lyn Yates (ed.), Feminism and Education (Melbourne Studies in Education 1993) (La Trobe University Press) Bundoora, 1993. Catriona Moore (ed.), Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts 1970–90 (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards, 1994. Toril Moi, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (Blackwell) Oxford, 1994. Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Allen & Unwin) St Leonards and (Indiana University Press) Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1994.

Volatile bodies: toward a corporeal feminism

Volatile Bodies is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivity, psychological depth and inferiority can be refigured in terms of bodies and surfaces. It uses, transforms and subverts the work of a number of distinguished male theorists of the body (Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Schilder, Nietzsche, Foucault, Lingis and Deleuze) who, while freeing the body from its subordination to the mind, are nonetheless unable to accomodate the specificities of women's bodies. Volatile Bodies explores various dissonances in thinking the relation between mind and body. It investigates issues that resist reduction to these binary terms - psychosis, hypochondria, neurological disturbances, perversions and sexual deviation - and most particularly the enigmatic status of body fluids, and the female body.

Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism

Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism

Notes towards a corporeal feminism

(1987). Notes towards a corporeal feminism. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 2, Feminism and the Body, pp. 1-16.