This abstract is from the cover of the book.
In this provocative book, Jacquelyn N. Zita questions the assumptions of heterosexual society, queer theory, postmodernism, and lesbian feminism in order to investigate the relationship between power, knowledge, identity formation, and the body.
Body Talk makes an original and significant contribution to lesbian and gay philosophy. It takes up a spectrum of very timely topics, including black althleticism, AIDS, and prozac, some of which are hardly ever discussed by philosophers, and does a beautiful job of blending abstract and concrete in its attack on the dualisms at the root of the oppressions of the body.
—Claudia Card, author of Lesbian Choices
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