Body Matters (Paperback)

Shereen Inayatulla

ISBN 10: 1558613498 / ISBN 13: 9781558613492

Published by Feminist Press at The City University of New York, New York, 2026

Paperback. WSQ: Body Matters considers the ways in which the physical body (re)defines feminist scholarship, art, and activism in light of environmental, political, and global emergencies and transformations taking hold at the present moment.Within the current paradigm of colonial exploitation, our bodies are sites of scrutiny, violence, commodification, racialization, policing, displacement, and strategic dehumanization. This moment demands renewed feminist critique of body politics and personhood. This special issue explores bodies marked by intersectional identities as sites of social and political violence but also as the vehicle for resistance, triumph, and decolonial justice. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781558613492

Synopsis:

WSQ: Body Matters considers the ways in which the physical body (re)defines feminist scholarship, art, and activism in light of environmental, political, and global emergencies and transformations taking hold at the present moment. 

Within the current paradigm of colonial exploitation, our bodies are sites of scrutiny, violence, commodification, racialization, policing, displacement, and strategic dehumanization. This moment demands renewed feminist critique of body politics and personhood. This special issue explores bodies marked by intersectional identities as sites of social and political violence but also as the vehicle for resistance, triumph, and decolonial justice.

About the Author:

Shereen Inayatulla is a professor of English and teaches courses in composition and critical literacy studies at York College, CUNY, located on Lenapehoking. Her areas of research include autoethnography, antiracist feminist pedagogy, and queer theory. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications such as the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Self+Culture+Writing, and The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric. Her 2023 coedited “Trans/Feminisms” special issue of Sinister Wisdom was a finalist for the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans & Gender-Variant Literature. 

Andie Silva is an associate professor of English at York College and Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests include book history, print and popular culture, and feminist digital pedagogy. She is the author of The Brand of Print: Marketing Paratexts in the Early English Book Trade (Brill, 2019). She is also coeditor, with Scott Schofield, of Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis (Iter Press, 2024) and Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses, with Sarah E. Parker (Arc Humanities Press, 2023).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Body Matters (Paperback)
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, New York
Publication Date: 2026
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new