Docile bodies, supercrips, and the plays of prosthetics
2010; Feminist Approaches to Bioethics; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/ijfab.3.2.63
ISSN1937-4585
Autores Tópico(s)Diversity and Impact of Dance
ResumoIn this paper, I consider the implications of representations of women with prosthetics in popular culture, specifically Heather Mills and Sarah Reinertsen. Using analyses from feminist and disability studies, I explore prosthetized bodies as docile bodies “fixed” to aesthetic and functional near-perfection. I then employ narratives emphasizing the complex corporeal experience of prosthetics to destabilize this seeming docility. I argue that “docile” readings are problematic and insufficient, building from faulty grounds of distinctions between “natural” and “technological,” and “therapy” and “enhancement.” Finally, I posit a more complex, phenomenological epistemology from which to consider prosthetized bodies and to reground prosthetic interpretations.
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