... on Female Infibulation: Responses from Sudanese Feminists.” Female “Circumcision” in Africa: Culture, Controversy,and Change . Ed. Ylva Hernlund and Bettina Shell-Duncan. Boulder:Lynn Reinner, 2000 . 151 –67. Ammar, Hamid. Growing Up in an Egyptian Village . New York: Octagon Books, 1961 . An-Na'im...

... the Butterflies.” Acorn the Nature Nut . Number 6. Edmonton, Can: Great North Productions. Animal Planet. Aoki, Doug. “Sex and Muscle: The Female Bodybuilder Meets Lacan.” Body & Society 2.4 ( 1996 ): 59 –74. Balsamo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body:Reading Cyborg Women . Durham and London...

... . jean walton Female Peristalsis Feminists have written extensively about women’s eating practices as they pertain to capitalist consumption and compulsory femi- ninity; analyses abound of the cultural implications of anorexia...

..., the essay argues that Hugo’s highly gendered language helped transform the episode from a man/animal encounter into the ravishing of the male protagonist by an assertive female. This reading is supported by an examination of the terrified reactions of contemporary readers and by looking at the cultural...

... and was therefore easily applied to those bodies that deviated from the white male norm: racially marked bodies, ethnic immigrant bodies, and female bodies. It was this last class of bodies that seemed especially susceptible to the discourse of mechanization. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the anthropo...

... : Basic Books , 1992 . Scarry Elaine . The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World . New York : Oxford UP , 1985 . Schor Naomi . “ Female Paranoia: The Case for Psychoanalytic Feminist Criticism .” Yale French Studies 62 ( 1981 ): 204 – 19 . Schreber Daniel...

... Culture . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1990 . Gaines Jane , and Herzog Charlotte , eds. Fabrications: Costumes and the Female Body . New York : Routledge , 1990 . Gallagher Catherine . Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670–1820...

... . “ Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West: Preliminary Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance .” Signs 14 . 4 ( 1989 ): 915 – 20 . hooks bell . “ Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace .” Black Looks: Race...

...Julian Kevon Kamilah Glover This article reflects on the impact of Evelynn Hammonds’s seminal essay “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” to theorize how suturing might present an apt method for considering the complexities and contradictions of Black female sexuality...

...Kevin Quashie In the exploration of what it is to be human, coupling is ever a problem; coupling disturbs or at least complicates the conceptualization of being, the philosophical deliberation of the one. This troubling is amplified for the black female subject, whose access to ideological oneness...

... . Tarde Gabriel . “ L'Amour morbide .” Archives d'anthropologie criminelle 5 ( 1890 ): 585 - 95 . ANN-LoUISE SHAPIRO Love Stories: Female Crimes of Passion in Fin-de-siecle Paris L the 1880s, the refrain of a ballad popular in the streets of Paris linked the recent murderess Gabrielle Bompard...

..., 1987 . Zéghidour Slimane . Le Voile et la bannière. Paris : Hachette , 1990 . Female Trouble in the Colonial Harem1 EMILY APTER He takes great pride in his sexuality only in so far as it is a means of appropriating the Other - and this dream other is abolished as such, it is consumed...

..., female hysterics could endure multiday laughing, barking fits without so much as a trace on their bodies. Finally, I think about the striking oppositions between the female laughing hysteric and the hysterically laughing woman through the archives of early cinema. Film spectatorship not only offered...

... that the suffragettes' contribution to political modernity is not limited to the enfranchisement of women, although this was an enormous victory. Equally significant is the suffragettes' discourse of revolution, which, as Hannah Arendt argues, reveals the inextricable connection between freedom, the emergence of female...

... attitudes toward prostitution in the 1970s, as well as to the economic shifts that saw the growth of service-oriented and intimate labor. In the 1970s, female performance artists and female critics who wrote for money were both likened to hookers. This article takes this analogy seriously to consider how...

...Shoniqua Roach This essay introduces a spirited cross-disciplinary and intergenerational queer black feminist dialogue about what Evelynn Hammonds’s 1994 difference s essay “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” has meant, and continues to mean, for queer black feminist...

...” young, white, female subjects through the circulation of naked or sexual images of them. This habit not only exemplifies the linking of subjectivity, privacy, and whiteness but also the way in which the online subject is figured as open, vulnerable, and perhaps asking for it—that is, traditionally...

... cinematic and theatrical? The tension between the somatic side of singing and the beautification of the singing, instrumental, working body through dancing brings a gendered vision to the fore that links the female body strictly with codes of beauty. A reading of Madonna’s video “Take a Bow” allows...