Subjectivity and the Gendered Body, lit, lect, MAEN G3 Gender Track, ANG MA G3
The aim of this lecture course is to examine the paradoxical space of the body, particularly in its relation to engendered subjectivity. We shall simultaneously decipher the ideologically pre/in-scribed positive cultural embodiment, ie. the disciplined subjectivity’s docile text written on the body by technologies of power and gender, as well as the potentially subversive tremulous private corporeality, ie. counter-narratives (re)written from/by the body, fuelled by a heterogeneous material energy to produce unpredictable texts via a transgressive reinscription. The course proposes to analyze, from multiple perspectives offered by gender-, queer- and body studies, the cultural constitution, the ideological manipulation, the (mock)pathological self-deformations. We shall study subversive re-stylisations of the engendered (raced, classed, (dis)abled, aged) social subject’s body, as well as the hybrid figures of recent feminist, queer, and corpusemiotical theoretical trends, which propose to provoke subversions of social-, psychic- and representational systems, and meaning- and identity- patterns by starting out from their counter-productive corporealities, grotesque re-embodiments, and spectacular bodily performances. Nomadic subjects, gender-bending performers, trickster-cyborgs, bordercrossing mestizas, laughing medusas, revolting hysterics, self-decomposing anorectics, (re)embodied autobiographers, monstrous mothers, female freaks, queer subjects, and corporeal feminists among others will be in the focus of our attention. Students are required to read theoretical articles (by Anzaldua, Balsamo, Bordo, Braidotti, Bronfen, Butler, Cixous, Grosz, Halberstam, Haraway, Kristeva, Russo, Smith, Stone, etc) discussed throughout the semester.
Topics (with further recommended readings in brackets)
Introduction. Bryan S Turner. “Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body”
Cultural Embodiment. Susan Bordo. “Foucault, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body”
(Judith Butler. “Bodies that matter. Introduction”, Teresa de Lauretis “The Technologies of Gender” )
The Tremulous Private Corporeality. Corporeal Feminism. Elizabeth Grosz. “Sexed Bodies” in Volatile Bodies. Toward a Corporeal Feminism.
(Mary Douglas. Purity and Danger, Julia Kristeva “An Essay on Abjection”, Georges Bataille “Heterology”)
The Body in the Text. From Écriture Féminine toward Corporeal Narratology. Ann Rosalind Jones. “Writing the Body. Toward an Understanding of Écriture Féminine” (+read one of these: Helene Cixous “The Laugh of Medusa”, Julia Kristeva “Stabat Mater”, Luce Irigaray “When Our Lips Speak Together“)
(Daniel Punday_”A Corporeal Narratology”, Peter Brooks “Body Works 1st ch”)
Phenomenology, Affect. Iris Marion Young. “Throwing like a girl. A Phenomenology of Body Comportment, Motility and Spatiality”
(Sarah Ahmed-The_Cultural_Politics_of_Emotions_intro)
Queer Bodies, Changing Body Image, Gender in Crisis. Barbara Creed. “The Lesbian Body. Tribades, Tomboys, and Tarts,”
Judith Halberstam “The Making of Female Masculinity”
(Susan Bordo “Beauty Rediscovers the Male Body”)
The Body and Race. Bibi Bakare-Yusuf ““The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror,”
(Sander Gilman. “Black bodies, white bodies: Toward an Iconography of female Sexuality in 19th Century Art, Medicine, and Literature” , Gloria Anzaldúa “La conciencia mestiza. Towards a new consciousness”)
The Body and Class Cora Kaplan. “Pandora’s Box. Subjectivity, Class, and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism”
(Barbara Ehrenreich. “What is socialist feminism?”)
Pathological, Biological Bodies. Elisabeth Bronfen-“Medicine’s Hysteria Romance: Is It History or Legend?”
(Lisa L Diedrich. “Hysterical Men and Shell-shocked Masculinity”)
Monstrous/ Disabled Bodies, Neurodiversity. Rosemary Garland Thomson: “From Wonder to Error—A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity”,
Susan Wendell. “Towards a Feminist Theory of Disability”
(Mary Russo_”Carnival and Theory: The Female Grotesque“, Rosi Braidotti_Mothers, Monsters, Machines, Shildrick_and Price : “Uncertain Thoughts on the Disabled Body”, Tom Shakespeare. “Sexual politics of disabled masculinity”)
Technologically Enhanced Embodiments, Posthumanism, thing power Donna Haraway “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”
Posthumanism, humanimal studies
Donna Haraway_”Introduction to When_Species_Meet”
(Michael Marder. “The Place of Plants”)
(Making Kin, An Interview with Donna Haraway)
VIDEOS
Em Ford. “My Pale Skin.” Beauty Blogger “You look disgusting” (on body shaming)
Zewa ad. “The Unfair race.” (on the gender chores divided)
White Ribbon. “Boys don’t cry” (Promoting a More Positive Masculinity)
Lana Wachowski HRC Visibility Award Acceptance Speech
Marilyn Waring . The unpaid work that GDP ignores –and why it really counts
Renata Salecl. The Paradox of Choice
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere: The story of Sarah Baartman the Hottentot Venus
Rosemary Garland-Thomson: Staring and its Implications in Society
Aimée Mullins. It’s not fair having 12 pairs of legs
PsychReviews: Studies in Hysteria: Freud and Breuer
Hysteria, dir Tanya Wexler, 2011
Opium, Diary of a Madwoman, dir János Szász, 2007
Defining Human Animal Studies. Youtube channel of Animals&Society Institute
KEY IMAGES
Édouard Manet’s Olympia, 1865
Satire of the Hottentot Venus, 1815
André Brouillet. Charcot demonstrating a hysterical patient
LIST OF KEY TERMS
technologies of power (Foucault)
biopower (Foucault)
Constitutive Outside (Butler)
Great Confinement
containment
body politics/politics of the body
body discipline
the sacrificial logic of identity vs a relational model of self-identity
scapegoating, othering
the Eye of the Power (Foucault)
Panopticism
the male gaze
the medical/anatomical gaze, the pathologization of the other
the museal gaze
the Anatomical Venus
skin ego (Anzieu)
19th century, turn-of-the-century precursors of body studies (Darwin, Freud, Marx, Nietzsche)
survival of the fittest/survival of the degenerate
moral Darwinism
res cogitans/res extensa (Descartes)
the body is the prison of the soul ↔ the soul is the prison of the body
flesh/body (/corpse)
intersectional feminism (Kimberle William Crenshaw)
technologies of gender (Lauretis)
“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” (Simone de Beauvoir)
the culturally prescribed management of the engendered body (Bordo)
normative ideals (Butler)
lookism, agism, (sexism, racism, classism, ableism)
BIDS (body image distortion syndrome, body dysmorphia)
anorexia, bulimia, bigorexia (muscle dysmorphia)
fat studies
the iron maiden of Beauty Myth (Naomi Wolf)
abjection (as the founding repudiation of the subject) (Kristeva)
subject/object/abject
presence vs re-presentation in body-art, performance art
positive cultural embodiment vs the tremulous private corporeality (Francis Barker)
corporeal feminism
the Moebius coil model of the ideologically disciplined+materially subversive body (Grosz)
the cultural devaluation of viscous female bodily fluids (eg. the engendered iconography of blood)
the subject constitued by loss (Lacan)
Body Positivity Movement (limits and potentials)
the postmodern myth of the malleable body
body modification as empowerment/interiorized ideological control
the right to bodily ownership, reproductive rights
rape culture, victim blaming
#metoo campaign, sisterhood, solidarity, collective online identity
écriture féminine
New French Feminism (as a misnomer)
the limits and potentials of the libidinal voice as an alternative form of feminine self-expression
the Laugh of Medusa (Cixous)
re/demythologization
“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.”
heretics of love (Kristeva)
Omphalos vs Phallus (Bronfen)
strategic essentialism (Spivak)
revolution in poetic language (Kristeva: genotext/phenotext)
transgressive reinscription, counter-spectacularity
feminine economy of gift
normative libidinal territorialization of the body (Freud)
semiotic chora (Kristeva)
heretics of love (Kristeva)
„When our lips speak together,” „This sex which is not one,” „The newly born woman,” the two lips of the vulva touching each other and speaking up (Irigaray)
Father’s language vs Mother’s body (vs Mother tongue?)
focus on tactility instead of visuality (touching as a non-hierarchical mode of communication)
creativity vs procreativity
canon revision
corporeal narratology
the phenomenology of engendered body comportment, motility and spatiality (I.M. Young)
the phenomenological significance of „throwing like a girl”
breasted experience in a phallic society
affinity/identity
moods/passion, anxiety/fear
lived space/objective space
homosocial desire
lesbian continuum
masculine hegemony (hegemonic masculinity)
critical masculinity studies
metrosexual
James Bond as an iconic embodiment of changing notions of masculinity
significance of naming (hate speech)
LGBTQ+
gender bender, gender-queer
drag
gender trouble, parody as politics (Butler)
F2M, M2F
sexual reconstruction surgery, sex-change surgery
the transgender body as a body-in-transition
“We are all transsexuals…/ and there are no transsexuals.” (Halberstam)
passing vs visibility
tribade/tomboy/tart
one-sex model
slave body as a body of pain, labour, knowledge
desubjectification of enslaved body, the nonreferentiality of pain
Middle Passage (Spielberg: Amistad)
the black woman as “the mule of the world”
shadism
blues music as a counter-discourse, an instrument of cultural memory, and a ground of collective identity
the unspeakability of trauma + the responsibility of commemoration
“This is a story to pass on. This is not a story to pass on.” (Toni Morrison’s Beloved)
socialist feminism
sufragettes
The Vindication of Rights of Women
Wollstonecraft’s challenging Rousseau: the notion of feminine passionlessness
unpaid housework, unpaid emotional labour
glass ceiling
public vs private sphere
1st, 2nd, 3rd wave feminism, post-feminism?
The feminine mystique (Betty Friedan)
A room of one’s own (Virginia Woolf)
maternal imagination
wandering womb
hysteria as a female malady
Freud’s Dora case, “Fragments of an analysis of a case of hysteria”
talking cure
the knotted subject
the feminization of madness: Brainless Brothers → Violent Lucy, Crazy Jane, Ophelia
the Omphalos
the Queen of the Night
Charcot: Salpetriere
disability/impairment
significance of naming: extraordinary/exceptional bodies (Garland Thomson)
teratology: from wonder to error
the social constructionist vs the medical model of disability
freak-show
supercrip
ableism
TABS (temporarily abled bodies)
dismodernism (Lennard Davis)
the female grotesque
neurodiversity
cyborg (Haraway)
technologically enhanced embodiment
Family-Market-Factory/Women in the Integrated Circuit
Public-Private/ Cyborg Citizenship
Labour/Robotics
Mind/Artificial Intelligence
Sex/Genetic Engineering
Representation/Simulation
Second World War/Star Wars
the “fruitful couplings” of the cyborg body providing the ground for a new identity-politics
speciesism
bioethics
posthumanism
humanimal studies
end of the anthropocene
thingpower
COMPULSORY READINGS
- Bryan S. Turner: “Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body”
- Susan Bordo, “Feminism, Foucault and the Politics of the Body”
- Elizabeth Grosz. “Sexed Bodies”
- Ann Rosalind Jones. “Writing the Body. Towards an Understanding of l’Écriture Féminine” (+read one of these: Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of Medusa.”, Julia Kristeva, “Stabat Mater”, Luce Irigaray, “When our lips speak together”)
- Iris Marion Young. “Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Body Comportment, Motility and Spatiality”
- Barbara Creed. “Lesbian Bodies: Tribades, Tomboys and Tarts,”
- Judith Halberstam. “F2M. The Making of Female Masculinity”
- Bibi Bakare-Yusuf. “The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies & the Unspeakable Terror,”
- Cora Kaplan. “Pandora’s Box. Subjectivity, Class, and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism”
- Elizabeth Bronfen, “Medicine’s Hysteria Romance: Is It History or Legend?”
- Rosemary Garland Thomson: “From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity”
- Susan Wendell. “Toward a Feminist Theory of the Disabled Body.”
- Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”
- Donna Haraway “Introduction to When Species Meet,”
Additional list of recommended readings:
Adams, Rachel: Sideshow U.S.A. Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Chicago, The U of Chicago P, 2001.
Alcoff, Linda, ed. Identities: Race, Class, Gender and Nationality, 2003.
Althusser, Louis: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. In Literary Theory. An Anthology. Szerk. Julie Rivkin – Michael Ryan. Oxford, Blackwell, 1998. 294-304.
Apertúra 2009.tél. (IV.2.) Test különszám. http://apertura.hu/2009/tel/tartalom
Bakhtin, Mikhail. “The grotesque body” in Rabelais and his World.
Balsamo, Anne. “Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture” /”The Virtual Body in Cyberspace”
Barát, Erzsébet. “A test adatbázissá szelídítése a nyelvhasználat-kutatásban.” Apertúra. 2009. IV.2.
Barker, Francis: The Tremulous Private Body. Essays on Subjection. London, Methuen, 1984.
Baudrillard, Jean: Simulacres et simulation. Paris, Galilée, 1981.
Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter. A Political Ecology of Things. Duke UP, 2010.
Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. New York: Columbia UP, 1994
Belting, Hans: Képantropológia. Budapest, Kijárat kiadó, 2004.
Berlant, Lauren – Elizabeth Freeman: Queer Nationality. In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City. Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Durham, Duke UP, 1997. 145-175.
Bogdan, Robert: Freak Show. Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. Chicago, U of Chicago P, 1990.
Bordo, Susan: Unbearable Weight. Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Los Angeles, California UP, 1993.
—. The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private , 1999.
Bronfen, Elizabeth. Over her Dead Body. Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic, 1992.
—. The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Masculine Domination, Polity, 2001.
Brooks, Peter: Body Work. Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1993.
Butler, Judith: Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London, Routledge, 1990. Problémás nem. Ford. Berán Eszter – Vándor Judit. Budapest, Balassi, 2006.
—: Bodies that Matter. On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York, Routledge, 1993. Jelentős testek – A „szexus” diszkurzív korlátairól. Ford. Barát Erzsébet – Sándor Bea. Budapest, Új Mandátum Könyvkiadó, 2005.
Cixous, Hélène: (1975) The Laugh of Medusa. In Feminisms, An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. Szerk. Robyn R. Warhol – Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick, Rutgers UP, 1981. 334-350. A medúza nevetése. Ford. Kádár Judit. In Testes könyv. II. szerk. Kiss Attila Atilla – Kovács Sándor s. k. – Odorics Ferenc. Szeged: Ictus. JATE Irodalomelmélet Csoport, 1997. 357–380.
Conboy, Katie – Nadia Medina – Sarah Stanbury. Szerk: Writing on the Body. Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. New York, Columbia UP. 1997.
Darabos Enikő, Nem Játék: Nyelv, nemi szerepek, pszichoanalízis. Budapest: Jószöveg Műhely, 2008.
Davis, Kathy: My Body is my Art. Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia? In Feminist Theory and the Body. Szerk. Janet Price – Margrit Shildrick. New York, Routledge, 1999. 454-466.
Debord, Guy: La société du spectacle. Paris, Gallimard, 1992.
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—: Technologies of Gender. Bloomington, Indiana UP, 1987.
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Douglas, Mary: (1966) Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London, Ark, 1984.
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