The Sexual Body: WSQ: Spring / Summer 2007 (Women's Studies Quarterly)

The mid-1970s feminist critique of the female body, sex, and pornography ignited a debate that has continued to this day. Through critical essays, fiction, poetry, and images, this provocative issue of WSQ probes this territory in the light of emerging areas of study.

Engaging the fields of critical race studies, film studies, history, literary criticism, performance studies, and political theory, The Sexual Body energizes the debates on the status of sex, pleasure, power, and desire. Ranging from soul food to dance hall music to new discussions of female- and transgender-directed pornography, this issue mobilizes cutting-edge feminist, race, and queer scholarship to push critical theories of the body to their limits and anticipates where race and sex will inform the next generation.

Eversley is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College specializing in Twentieth Century African American literature and culture as well as gender, sexuality, and visual studies. Her most recent book is The "Real" Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth Century African American Literature. Morgan is Assistant Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers specializing in the study of gender and the early modern African diaspora. Her most recent book is Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in New World Slavery.