“Bag Lady, You Gon’ Hurt Your Back”: An Existential-Phenomenological Account of Women and Bag-Carrying as Narrated Through Erykah Badu
2023; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/tae.2023.0003
ISSN2572-6633
Autores Tópico(s)Turkey's Politics and Society
ResumoThis article presents the practice of extreme bag-carrying among women from both phenomenological and existential perspectives, examining the potential political and social substructures inducing women to enact a pain-producing habit. Drawing on insights from both phenomenology and existentialism, this essay aims to get underneath the practice, making legible the motivations behind enacting a habit that, while innocuous on its face, poses an immense amount of harm to the bag-carrying woman. The pain factor leaves us with a puzzle through which I propose to sort: the fact of women engaging in a habit that in the end, just hurts.
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