Lisa Diedrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 225871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Diedrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Diedrich |
| SIGNATURE | DIEDRICH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Illness (In)action: CFS and #TimeForUnrest
Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities by Olivia Banner
Reviewed by: Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities by Olivia Banner Lisa Diedrich (bio) Olivia Banner. Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. Paperback, $24.95. Olivia Banner joins a growing number of health humanities scholars who take the field and its histories, methods, pedagogi…
Vexy Thing: On Gender and LiberationExtreme Domesticity: A View from the MarginsTainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives
In reading the recent work of three preeminent feminist literary and cultural studies scholars—Imani Perry, Susan Fraiman, and Leigh Gilmore—I am struck by the fact that they are all invested in a critical reanimation of what we might call, drawing on terminology from Gilmore, tainted key terms and concepts, namely, patriarchy (Perry), domesticity (Fraiman), and women’s testimony (Gilmore). All three books are ambitious projects that emerge out o…
Ce que nous apprennent les villes-ports
For whom? Exploring landscape design as a political project
This special issue explores landscape design as a societal and political project. Its aim is to explore the question ‘For whom?’ in landscape architecture by extending the latter’s agency as a desi
Articulating Double Binds
I return to Patricia J. Williams's essay "On Being the Object of Property" (1988) and her work more generally to explore how she imagines justice alchemically through the articulation of a rhetoricity of rights and of vulnerability. Put another way, I read Williams's work as providing an early model for doing critical race and legal studies with critical disability studies. Although Williams does not use the term disability in her early work, I a…
Being-becoming-monster: Mirrors and Mirroring in Graphic Frankenstein Narratives
I discuss several mirror scenes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to demonstrate what I call being-becoming-monster, a phrase meant to emphasize that the being’s monstrosity is not an attribute of his beingness but emerges in relation to the gaze of others and his own view of himself through the eyes of others. I then perform an interior duplication of my own analysis by turning to reanimations of these mirror scenes in two graphic Frankenstein narr…
Thinking Sexuality and Dis/ability Together
Book Review| January 01 2017 Thinking Sexuality and Dis/ability Together Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency. Gill, Michael. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xvii + 255 pp. Lisa Diedrich Lisa Diedrich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2017) 23 (1): 151–153. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3672476 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Illness as Assemblage: The Case of Hystero-epilepsy
This article explores illness as an assemblage of bodies, discourses, and practices by tracing a genealogy of the condition hystero-epilepsy in order to show the precarity of dominant bio-psychiatric ideology in the present. I read Siri Hustvedt's case study of her own nervous condition with and against other histories of nerves, including Charcot's treatment of hystero-epilepsy in the 1870s, Foucault's treatment of hysteria, simulation, and the …
Experience, echo, event: Theorising feminist histories, historicising feminist theory
On 'The evidence of experience' and its reverberations: An interview with Joan W. Scott
Graphic Analysis: Transitional Phenomena in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother
In this essay, methods are discussed for enacting "potential spaces," as demonstrated in D. W. Winnicott's theoretical and therapeutic practices and as drawn in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Are You My Mother? , a text in which Winnicott and his work in particular, and therapeutic scenes in general, figure prominently. It juxtaposes Winnicott's theories and practices next to Bechdel's in order to create a transitional space between the two that…
Que(e)rying the Clinic before Aids: Practicing Self-help and Transversality in the 1970s
Being the Shadow: Witnessing Schizophrenia
Illness and the Limits of Expression (review)
Reviewed by: Illness and the Limits of Expression Lisa Diedrich (bio) Kathlyn Conway. Illness and the Limits of Expression. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 158 pp. Clothbound, $50.00. At the very beginning of her 1997 illness memoir, Ordinary Life, Kathlyn Conway tells her reader that she “feel[s] like a modern phenomenon—a forty-seven-year-old woman with one husband, two children, and three cancers.”1 What makes her a “modern phen…
Breast Cancer on Long Island’: The Emergence of a New Object Through Mapping Practices
Doing Queer Love: Feminism, Aids, and History
In this essay, I utilize the concept of the echo, as formulated in the historical and methodological work of Michel Foucault and Joan W. Scott, to help theorize the historical relationship between health feminism and AIDS activism. I trace the echoes between health feminism and AIDS activism in order to present a more complex history of both movements, and to try to think through the ways that the coming together of these two struggles in a parti…
Aids and Its Treatments: Two Doctors' Narratives of Healing, Desire, and Belonging
Introduction: Genealogies of Disability
I would like to acknowledge Cindy Patton's important influence on the emergence and enactment of this project. Without her support – as intellectual inspiration, mentor and friend – this project never would have come into being. Notes 1. Corker and Shakespeare do acknowledge the problem of the conflation of ‘post-structuralism’ with ‘postmodernism’, and admit that many of the theorists who they categorize as post-structuralist, including Foucault…
"Without us all told": Paul Monette's Vigilant Witnessing to the Aids Crisis
Without us all told":Paul Monette's Vigilant Witnessing to the AIDS Crisis Lisa Diedrich (bio) On October 22, 1986, Paul Monette's lover, Roger Horwitz, died of AIDS. "That is the only real date anymore," Monette writes, "casting its ice shadow over all the secular holidays lovers mark their calendars by."1 In the year following Roger's death, Monette, himself HIV positive and up until then known (or not known as the case may be) as a writer of r…
Breaking Down: A Phenomenology of Disability
Literature and Medicine - Volume 20, Number 2, Fall 2001
For whom? Exploring landscape design as a political project
This special issue explores landscape design as a societal and political project. Its aim is to explore the question ‘For whom?’ in landscape architecture by extending the latter’s agency as a desi
Doing Queer Love: Feminism, Aids, and History
In this essay, I utilize the concept of the echo, as formulated in the historical and methodological work of Michel Foucault and Joan W. Scott, to help theorize the historical relationship between health feminism and AIDS activism. I trace the echoes between health feminism and AIDS activism in order to present a more complex history of both movements, and to try to think through the ways that the coming together of these two struggles in a parti…
Introduction: Genealogies of Disability
I would like to acknowledge Cindy Patton's important influence on the emergence and enactment of this project. Without her support – as intellectual inspiration, mentor and friend – this project never would have come into being. Notes 1. Corker and Shakespeare do acknowledge the problem of the conflation of ‘post-structuralism’ with ‘postmodernism’, and admit that many of the theorists who they categorize as post-structuralist, including Foucault…
Illness as Assemblage: The Case of Hystero-epilepsy
This article explores illness as an assemblage of bodies, discourses, and practices by tracing a genealogy of the condition hystero-epilepsy in order to show the precarity of dominant bio-psychiatric ideology in the present. I read Siri Hustvedt's case study of her own nervous condition with and against other histories of nerves, including Charcot's treatment of hystero-epilepsy in the 1870s, Foucault's treatment of hysteria, simulation, and the …
Graphic Analysis: Transitional Phenomena in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother
In this essay, methods are discussed for enacting "potential spaces," as demonstrated in D. W. Winnicott's theoretical and therapeutic practices and as drawn in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Are You My Mother? , a text in which Winnicott and his work in particular, and therapeutic scenes in general, figure prominently. It juxtaposes Winnicott's theories and practices next to Bechdel's in order to create a transitional space between the two that…
Experience, echo, event: Theorising feminist histories, historicising feminist theory
Breaking Down: A Phenomenology of Disability
Literature and Medicine - Volume 20, Number 2, Fall 2001
"Without us all told": Paul Monette's Vigilant Witnessing to the Aids Crisis
Without us all told":Paul Monette's Vigilant Witnessing to the AIDS Crisis Lisa Diedrich (bio) On October 22, 1986, Paul Monette's lover, Roger Horwitz, died of AIDS. "That is the only real date anymore," Monette writes, "casting its ice shadow over all the secular holidays lovers mark their calendars by."1 In the year following Roger's death, Monette, himself HIV positive and up until then known (or not known as the case may be) as a writer of r…
Aids and Its Treatments: Two Doctors' Narratives of Healing, Desire, and Belonging
Introduction: Genealogies of Disability
I would like to acknowledge Cindy Patton's important influence on the emergence and enactment of this project. Without her support – as intellectual inspiration, mentor and friend – this project never would have come into being. Notes 1. Corker and Shakespeare do acknowledge the problem of the conflation of ‘post-structuralism’ with ‘postmodernism’, and admit that many of the theorists who they categorize as post-structuralist, including Foucault…
Breast Cancer on Long Island’: The Emergence of a New Object Through Mapping Practices
Doing Queer Love: Feminism, Aids, and History
In this essay, I utilize the concept of the echo, as formulated in the historical and methodological work of Michel Foucault and Joan W. Scott, to help theorize the historical relationship between health feminism and AIDS activism. I trace the echoes between health feminism and AIDS activism in order to present a more complex history of both movements, and to try to think through the ways that the coming together of these two struggles in a parti…
Illness and the Limits of Expression (review)
Reviewed by: Illness and the Limits of Expression Lisa Diedrich (bio) Kathlyn Conway. Illness and the Limits of Expression. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 158 pp. Clothbound, $50.00. At the very beginning of her 1997 illness memoir, Ordinary Life, Kathlyn Conway tells her reader that she “feel[s] like a modern phenomenon—a forty-seven-year-old woman with one husband, two children, and three cancers.”1 What makes her a “modern phen…
Being the Shadow: Witnessing Schizophrenia
Que(e)rying the Clinic before Aids: Practicing Self-help and Transversality in the 1970s
Experience, echo, event: Theorising feminist histories, historicising feminist theory
On 'The evidence of experience' and its reverberations: An interview with Joan W. Scott
Graphic Analysis: Transitional Phenomena in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother
In this essay, methods are discussed for enacting "potential spaces," as demonstrated in D. W. Winnicott's theoretical and therapeutic practices and as drawn in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir Are You My Mother? , a text in which Winnicott and his work in particular, and therapeutic scenes in general, figure prominently. It juxtaposes Winnicott's theories and practices next to Bechdel's in order to create a transitional space between the two that…
Illness as Assemblage: The Case of Hystero-epilepsy
This article explores illness as an assemblage of bodies, discourses, and practices by tracing a genealogy of the condition hystero-epilepsy in order to show the precarity of dominant bio-psychiatric ideology in the present. I read Siri Hustvedt's case study of her own nervous condition with and against other histories of nerves, including Charcot's treatment of hystero-epilepsy in the 1870s, Foucault's treatment of hysteria, simulation, and the …
Thinking Sexuality and Dis/ability Together
Book Review| January 01 2017 Thinking Sexuality and Dis/ability Together Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency. Gill, Michael. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xvii + 255 pp. Lisa Diedrich Lisa Diedrich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2017) 23 (1): 151–153. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3672476 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sea…
Being-becoming-monster: Mirrors and Mirroring in Graphic Frankenstein Narratives
I discuss several mirror scenes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to demonstrate what I call being-becoming-monster, a phrase meant to emphasize that the being’s monstrosity is not an attribute of his beingness but emerges in relation to the gaze of others and his own view of himself through the eyes of others. I then perform an interior duplication of my own analysis by turning to reanimations of these mirror scenes in two graphic Frankenstein narr…
For whom? Exploring landscape design as a political project
This special issue explores landscape design as a societal and political project. Its aim is to explore the question ‘For whom?’ in landscape architecture by extending the latter’s agency as a desi
Articulating Double Binds
I return to Patricia J. Williams's essay "On Being the Object of Property" (1988) and her work more generally to explore how she imagines justice alchemically through the articulation of a rhetoricity of rights and of vulnerability. Put another way, I read Williams's work as providing an early model for doing critical race and legal studies with critical disability studies. Although Williams does not use the term disability in her early work, I a…
Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities by Olivia Banner
Reviewed by: Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities by Olivia Banner Lisa Diedrich (bio) Olivia Banner. Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. Paperback, $24.95. Olivia Banner joins a growing number of health humanities scholars who take the field and its histories, methods, pedagogi…
Vexy Thing: On Gender and LiberationExtreme Domesticity: A View from the MarginsTainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives
In reading the recent work of three preeminent feminist literary and cultural studies scholars—Imani Perry, Susan Fraiman, and Leigh Gilmore—I am struck by the fact that they are all invested in a critical reanimation of what we might call, drawing on terminology from Gilmore, tainted key terms and concepts, namely, patriarchy (Perry), domesticity (Fraiman), and women’s testimony (Gilmore). All three books are ambitious projects that emerge out o…
Ce que nous apprennent les villes-ports
Illness (In)action: CFS and #TimeForUnrest
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)