ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00252.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Feminism could be described as a discourse that negotiates corporeality, what a body is and what a body can do. Nevertheless, the specter of essentialism means that the biological or anatomical body, the body that is commonly understood to be the “real” body, is often excluded from this investigation. The increasingly sterile debate between essentialism and antiessentialism has inadvertently encouraged this somatophobia. I argue that these opposing positions are actually inseparable, sharing a complicitous relationship that produces material effe

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00253.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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The paper identifies the phenomenal rise of increasingly invasive forms of elective cosmetic surgery targeted primarily at women and explores its significance in the context of contemporary biotechnology. A Foucauldian analysis of the significance of the normalization of technologized women's bodies is argued for. Three “Paradoxes of Choice” affecting women who “elect” cosmetic surgery are examined. Finally, two Utopian feminist political responses are discussed: a Response of Refusal and a Response of Approp

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00254.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Some poststructuralist feminist theorists hold that the body is merely the product of cultural determinants and that gender is a free‐floating artifice. I discuss how this “denaturalization” of gender and the body entrenches us yet deeper in the nature/culture dichotomy. The body, I maintain, needs to be “renaturalized” so that its earthy significance is recognized. Through a feminist reappropriation of Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology of the body, I develop a noncausal linkage between gender and the body. I present the body as an indeterminate constancy that is culturally and historically contextualized, on the one hand, yet part of our embodied givenness on the other. Interspersed throughout the paper are passages that describe my own bodily condition as I wrot

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00255.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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In both her fiction and her essays on writing and feminist theory, Monique Wittig takes up and redeploys traditional themes and genres as well as recent theories of language, literature, and writing in order to force change in and through the dominant categories of thought and language. She has announced her project as one which would “do away with the category of sex” by way of reconfiguring the grammatically and conceptually enforced compulsory heterosexual order. I examine the specific linguistic mechanisms by which Wittig accomplishes this abolition of “sex” and the political/philosophical/ linguistic consequences of her “lesbianization” of language. Throughout, I aim to suggest what the political importance ofThe Lesbian Bodyas a diversified andwritt

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00256.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper explores the symbolic implications of Luce Irigaray's images of the female body, particularly the two lips and the mucous. It suggests that Irigaray's work reveals some of the problems attendant on “positive images of women

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00257.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article argues against a conception of the body as providing a basis for truth claims within feminist discourse. Taking from Michèle Le Doeuffs theory of the work of the image within discourse, and Michel Foucault's “technologies of the self,” it is argued that the doubledness of the body (“who am I? and who is she?”) can be put to work to construct embodied enunicative positions within feminis

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00258.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper considers the advantages of incorporating Foucault's anti‐essentialist theory of the body into feminist explanations of women's oppression. There are also problems in that Foucault neglects to examine the gendered character of the body and reproduces a sexism endemic in “gender neutral” social theory. The Foucauldian body is essentially passive resulting in a limited account of identity and agency. This conflicts with an aim of feminism: to rediscover and revalue the experiences of

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00259.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Drawing on the work of Irigaray and Levinas, this paper discusses the ethical limitations of Lacan's “mirror‐stage” dynamic and interpolates a different interpretation of the material he uses to elaborate his theory. Close attention is paid to the significance of metaphors of vision and touch in the work of the three philosophers. The paper develops into an analysis of bigamy's and Levinas's interpretations of touch as the differential site of e

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00260.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Through a re‐reading of Antigone, I offer a critique of Hegel's use of the story to illustrate the unity which emerges from the representation of sexual difference in ethical life. Using Hegel's own account of habits, as the mechanism by which the body becomes a sign of the self, I argue that the pretense of social unity assumes the proper construction and representation of one body only. This critique is brought to bear upon contemporary moves towards a post‐Hegelian ethics of differe

ISSN:0887-5367    

DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00261.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY