The 'unruly body' then in its capacity to account for diverse practices of living as well as regulation articulates embodiment as a racialized, gendered, and sexualized process. Of particular interest to Gay is the body that refuses to be disciplined with identity itself being an: 'expression of the fear of unruly bodies' (2017b, 165). The body emerges as the primary site through which to examine contemporary social life in Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist: Essays (2014), Difficult Women (2017a), and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017b).
