Body and Representation

2002
ISBN: 978-3-8100-3254-6
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

Reihe: Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur"

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.

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.