Despite several decades of feminist activism and scholarship, women¿s bodies continue to be sites of control and contention both materially and symbolically. Issues such as reproductive technologies, sexual violence, objectification, motherhood, and sex trafficking, among others, constitute ongoing, pressing concerns for women¿s bodies in our contemporary milieu, arguably exacerbated in a neoliberal world where bodies are instrumentalized as sites of human capital. This book engages with these themes by building on the strong tradition of feminist thought focused on women¿s bodies, and by making novel contributions that reflect feminists¿ concerns¿both theoretically and empirically¿about gender and embodiment in the present context and beyond. The collection brings together