Androcentric gender ideology is complicit with choosing different lives and identities for Sula, a symbol of a liberated womyn. In Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism, Elizabeth Grosz suggests that the body is constructed: . Grosz’s comment on the constructiveness of a person’s body is echoed in Foucault’s remarks about the flesh-ization of the body as wicked and dangerous. According to Foucault, a person is flesh-ized as wicked and dangerous because s/he/they challenge the push for morality and conformity. In this sense, the body is an arena for contesting authority and control between a person who fights for self-definition and a society which calls for control and conformity. Unfortunately, the black folks’ judgment and intolerance
