Härtel Body and Representation

2002
ISBN: 978-3-663-11622-6
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 228 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur"

,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.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Härtel, Insa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schade, Sigrid

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Sexuality and Agency.- Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neo-colonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water.- Normalizing Heterosexuality in the 1996 House of Commons Debate on Bill C-33.- Lesbian Representation and the Limits of “Visibility”.- The Lesbian Body — a Monstrous or a Transcendental Signifier? Lesbian Representation and Cultural Construction.- Pornotopic Techniques of the Observer — The Origins of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet and the Pleasure of Scopic Penetration.- Body Languages — Body Signs.- Body — Sign — Gender. “Representation”: Between Culture, Body and Perception.- Will White Feminism Surrender the Default Position? Gender Studies and Whiteness.- Engendered Bodies: Metaphors in Feminism.- The Absent Presence: Reflections on the Discursive Practice of Veiling.- The New Age of Anxiety.- Leaving Mother Behind: On the Production and Replacement of the Maternal in Space.- Living Images of “Human-Beasts”: Reflections on the “Wild” in the Media.- The Body and the (New) Media.- Dissident Bodies: Freeing the Gaze from Norms, On a Cinematic and Visual Arts Practice.- The Medium Is Not the Only Message.- The Construction of Gender in Photographs of Children.- Hollywood Reproductions: Mothers, Clones, and Aliens.- Nation and Body.- Body Language: The Somatics of Nationalism in Tamil India.- Gender Difference and the Visual Representation of the Political.- Social Constructions of Motherhood in Germany.- Authors.

Über Autor(innen)

Insa Härtel, Ph.D., research assistant at the Center of Feminist Research and the department of Cultural Studies, University of Bremen, Germany; Sigrid Schade, Professor for Science of Art and Theory of Aesthetics and Vice-Spokesperson of the Center of Feminist Research, University of Bremen, Germany.