Bodie A. Ashton is a historian, lecturer and researcher in the Faculty of Law at the Universität Passau in southern Bavaria, Germany. He is the author of The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871 (2017).

Amy Bonsall is a theatre director and academic. She is co-artistic director of Bilimankhwe, an intercultural theatre company, and a researcher at the University of Manchester's Science and Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub. She is the founder and director of The Women in Academia Support Network #WIASN.

Jonathan Hay is completing a PhD at the University of Chester, UK. Their work has been published in a number of academic journals. Jonathan has presented conference papers internationally, and was shortlisted for the University of Cambridge's Jane Martin Poetry Prize in 2017.

Follows from the success of the first volume of Talking Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment, Gender and Identity (London: Palgrave, 2017)

Addresses key issues that preoccupy modern society, while at the same time introducing nuance and diversity to broaden our understanding

Challenges narratives that have all too often been reduced to a simplistic dualism: body and soul, man and woman, able and disabled, gay and straight, healthy and unhealthy

Foreword: Emma L.E. Rees (University of Chester, UK).- Introduction: Bodie A. Ashton (Universität Passau, Germany), Amy Bonsall (Bilimankhwe Arts, UK), and Jonathan Hay (University of Chester, UK).- The Language of Bodies.- Jessica George: 'Contesting Narrative over the Body of Blodeuwedd: Gender, Nation, and Language in Adaptations of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi.'.- Reisa Klein: 'Beautifully Scarred: Online Discourses on Tattooing as Self-Care after Breast Cancer.'.- Masculinities and the Body.- Laura Katz Rizzo: 'Spectacular Choreographies of Mythic Proportion: The Transgressive Performances of Ricki Starr the Ballet-Dancing Wrestler.'.- David Andrew Griffiths: 'Hypospadias and the Performative, Psychological, and Perfect Penis.'.- Desecreation of the Body.- Shereen Abouelnaga: 'The Minoritised Body as a Signifier.'.- Melissa Tanti: 'How to Get Away with Rape: Early Findings in the Making of a Documentary Film.'.- Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identity.- Jennifer Dyer: 'Parenting Gender Creative Kids: New Models of Advocacy and Allyship.'.- Beniamin K¿aniecki: 'Reading Bruce Chatwin: Towards an écriture homosexuelle.'.- Lea Sophie Schiel: 'The Subversive Potential of Sex Performances.'.- Rosie Nelson: 'Here and Queer (?): Monosexism and the Bisexual Body.