Body and Representation

Description

,The Body and Representation. Feminist Research and Theoretical Perspectives' was conceived as two weeks program within the International Women's University's project area BODY by the Center for Feminist Studies (ZFS) at the University of Bremen and organized in summer 2000. The publication includes results from lectures and seminars and additional contributions adding to main topics. Among the issues raised are concepts, staging, performances and representations of bodies in everyday life, political contexts, art and new media. Front Matter....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-19 Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neo-colonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water....Pages 21-34 Normalizing Heterosexuality in the 1996 House of Commons Debate on Bill C-33....Pages 35-41 Lesbian Representation and the Limits of “Visibility”....Pages 43-49 The Lesbian Body — a Monstrous or a Transcendental Signifier?....Pages 51-57 Pornotopic Techniques of the Observer — The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet and the Pleasure of Scopic Penetration....Pages 59-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-71 Body — Sign — Gender....Pages 73-82 Will White Feminism Surrender the Default Position? Gender Studies and Whiteness....Pages 83-90 Engendered Bodies: Metaphors in Feminism....Pages 91-98 The Absent Presence: Reflections on the Discursive Practice of Veiling....Pages 99-106 The New Age of Anxiety....Pages 107-122 Leaving Mother Behind: On the Production and Replacement of the Maternal in Space....Pages 123-129 Living Images of “Human-Beasts”: Reflections on the “Wild” in the Media....Pages 131-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-141 Dissident Bodies: Freeing the Gaze from Norms....Pages 143-157 The Medium Is Not the Only Message....Pages 159-166 The Construction of Gender in Photographs of Children....Pages 169-177 Hollywood Reproductions: Mothers, Clones, and Aliens ....Pages 179-186 Front Matter....Pages 187-188 Body Language: The Somatics of Nationalism in Tamil India....Pages 189-199 Gender Difference and the Visual Representation of the Political....Pages 201-214 Social Constructions of Motherhood in Germany....Pages 215-221 Back Matter....Pages 223-228