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Reinstating Corporeality Feminism and Body
Politics

• By Janet Wolff
• Week 12 Presentation
• Stephanie Peck and Edited By Laura Pratt and Dr.
  Kay Picart

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Body Discourses

• How do women experience oppression?
• Preexisting meanings of female body
• ________________
• ________________
• Internalization of the-

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Indirectly Experiencing the Body

• Judeo-Christian belief system
• Epistemological foundation
• Demonization of physical in post-Enlightenment
  thought
• Baconian rape of nature
• _______________________________________

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Body Types

• Classical body
• ________________
• ________________
• Docile body
• _________________
• _________________
• Grotesque body
• _______________
• __________________

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Transgression and the Female Other

• Monsterous-feminine archetype (Julia Kristeva)
• ______________________
• ______________________
• ______________________
• Maternal-as-monstrous
• _________________________
• Proximity results in fractured psyche
• _____________________-
• ________________

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Dance as Subversive

• Classical dancer upholds ___________ body type
• Modern dancer important in upholding ___________
  body types and creating narrative space for
  strong/ threatening women

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• Grotesque/Classical?

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Works Cited

• Texts
• Halberstam, Judith. Skin Shows. New York
  Columbus. 1995.
• My Perogative. Spears video.
• Psycho. Dir. Hitchcock
• Wolff, Janet. Reinstating Corporeality Feminism
  and body Politics. MM. Course Library.