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Nikki Sullivan
These names represent either LGBTQ identified or
LGBTQ friendly scholars doing work in Queer Theory, Gender
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Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, and Pleasure
by Nikki
Sullivan
Drawing on the works of a number of postmodern
theorists, this study suggests that the tattooed body is
symptomatic of a general process of marking and being marked and
is a social production of identity and difference. Shifting the
focus away from what the tattooed body means to what it does, this
work analyzes how it functions and what effects it produces. It
challenges the ways in which identity and difference are
discursively produced, particularly in psychological,
criminological, and counter-cultural discourses. The writings of
such theorists as Foucault, Levinas, Barthes, and Lingis are
scrutinized to reveal how their discourse interprets the tattooed
body as simply an aberrant threat to the body or simply a positive
counter-cultural challenge. These theories are supplanted with
this unique approach to notions of subjectivity, textuality,
ethics, and pleasure and to the relationships among them.
This examination of the role of the body in social, political, and
ethical relations will attract scholars from a number of
disciplines, including cultural studies, gender studies,
philosophy, visual arts, sociology, and English. It will also
appeal to critics and practitioners in contemporary practices of
body modification.
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Organizations & Institutions
Department of Critical and Cultural Studies,
Macquarie university
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Fields of Study
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Theories of
subjectivity, sexuality, embodiment. |
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Poststructuralism,
Visual Culture - particularly photographic theory |
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Published Works:
(2001) Tattooed
Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics and Pleasure,
Westport: Praeger (forthcoming in august).
(2001) "Fleshly (Dis)Figuration or How to
Make the Body Matter" in The International Journal of
Critical Psychology, (forthcoming).
(1999) "Queer Pleasures: Some
Thoughts", in Social Semiotics 9:2.
(1997) "Fleshing Out Pleasure: Canonization
or Crucifixion?", in Australian Feminist Studies,
12:26.
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Current Projects
I am currently working on the manuscript of an
introductory text on Queer Theory. I am also involved in a joint
project on the ways in which the intersexed body has been understood
and the material effects of this. The third project that I'm
involved in at the moment is concerned with a range of possible
converegences between philosophy and photography. Eventually this
project may well include an examination of sexuality and its
relation to visuality.
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