Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index.
Contents
Who says an older woman can't/shouldn't dance? / Gloria Wade-Gayles -- When body politics of partial identifications collide with multiple identities of real academics: limited understandings of research and truncated collegial interactions / Sue V. Rosser -- Body language: corporeal semiotics, literary resistance / Maude Hines -- Writing in red ink / Debra Walker King -- Myths and monsters: the female body as the site for political agendas / S. Yumiko Hulvey -- Agency and ambivalence: a reading of works by Coco Fusco / Caroline Vercoe -- Perfoming bodies, performing culture: an interview with Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante / Rosemary Weatherston -- Women singing, women gesturing: music videos / Maureen Turim -- Bombshell / Stephanie A. Smith -- Afterword: the unbroken circle of assumptions / Trudier Harris.