This study is the first book-length analysis of African women's writing of Southern Africa with a focus on writing the body. The thesis is that women are not voiceless, but hold a powerful, liberating potential: they "throw their voices" by implementing a strategic corporeal. Notably, this mode is not carried out in a way of emphasising corporeal difference by lack, but by attributing positive markers to the body. It reaches beyond a speaking which only represents women's thoughts and emotions physically - a mode which might render the impression that they are incapable of expressing their conceptions and sentiments linguistically. It is an empowerment that reflects their skill to break up the bonds between language and body. This study is wide-ranging in its choice of authors and themes. Contents: "Women have a mouth": re-theorising voicelessness - Methodological approach to Southern African women's writing - Specification of study - Women's authority, voicing, and writing in Southern Africa - Kaleidoscopic views: body, space, and identity in "The Middle Children" and "Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter" - The corporeal as a site of shame and redefinition in the novels of Zo¿icomb - Shades of utter(ing) silences (analysing works of Neshani Andreas, Bessie Head, and Yvonne Vera) - "Exciting" speech in "Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman" - Re-mapping and recycling the phallic in "Toasted Penis and Cheese" - The bond(age) of love: "A Question of Power" - Homoerotic desire in Southern African literatures - There is no such thing as monsters: prostitute discourses in "Life" and" Desperate".