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Embodied abject play: women “sex comics” and abject feminism

2021; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 41; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10462937.2021.1916581

1479-5760

Kristen Hoerl, Casey Ryan Kelly,

Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

We analyze the performances of comics Whitney Cummings, Nikki Glaser, Amy Schumer, and Ali Wong that address topics that patriarchal culture has deemed abject about women's bodies. These routines destabilize the patriarchal grounds of abjection through what we have termed embodied abject play: the shocking yet humorous re-presentation of bodies and bodily excesses that have been relegated to the margins, repressed, disavowed, or otherwise expelled in the name of stabilizing the symbolic order. By destabilizing the grounds of abjection, abject play creates a space for women to write themselves and their humanity back into the symbolic order.