Body and Representation

ISBN-13: 9783810032546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 228 str.

Insa Hartel; Sigrid Schade

Opis

The Body and Representation: The Centre for Feminist Studies Meets the ifu The present work is the result of the cooperation between the Centre for Femi nist Studies (ZFS) at the University of Bremen and the International Women's University Hanover 2000 (ifu). For the project area Body (deans: Prof. Patricia McFadden and Prof. Barbara Duden), in which roughly one hundred fifty par ticipants from all over the world took part/ the Centre for Feminist Studies de veloped and organized a two-week study phase, The Body and Representation: Feminist Research and Theoretical Perspectives, which was carried out on the campus of the University of Bremen from 30 July to 11 August 2000 (concept and chair: Prof. Sigrid Schade; collaboration I coordination: Dr. Insa Hartel). It formed the third and fourth weeks of a program that lasted thirteen weeks in all. This publication is neither a documentation of this study phase nor an "ideal" concept for such a curriculum. Neither of these possible variants for such a publication was feasible, and neither would have made much sense, for a number of reasons."

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.

Blurb

,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.