The Sexual Body WSQ: Spring / Summer 2007

During the past thirty years, controversies have raged over the associations among women's bodies, sex, and questions of women's liberation. Through critical essays, fiction, poetry, and images, this provocative issue draws on the expertise of a variety of disciplines to explore a range of topics, including soul food, the works of performance artist Sarah Jones, photographer Renee Cox, filmmaker Spike Lee, dance hall music, and the history of slavery, as it reveals how women's bodies have been portrayed and how society views, discusses, and practices sex today.