Volatile bodies: toward a corporeal feminism
Abstract
Volatile Bodies is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivity, psychological depth and inferiority can be refigured in terms of bodies and surfaces. It uses, transforms and subverts the work of a number of distinguished male theorists of the body (Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Schilder, Nietzsche, Foucault, Lingis and Deleuze) who, while freeing the body from its subordination to the mind, are nonetheless unable to accomodate the specificities of women's bodies. Volatile Bodies explores various dissonances in thinking the relation between mind and body. It investigates issues that resist reduction to these binary terms - psychosis, hypochondria, neurological disturbances, perversions and sexual deviation - and most particularly the enigmatic status of body fluids, and the female body.
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Unknown author (1995). Volatile bodies: toward a corporeal feminism. Choice Reviews Online. https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.32-3246
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title = {Volatile bodies: toward a corporeal feminism},
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year = {1995},
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doi = {10.5860/choice.32-3246}
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