Use words. Not your body”
The hunger that has no name
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12081279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kim F Hall, Kim Hall (0000-0003-1022-7228, Barnard College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-180 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07407700802107218 |
| OpenAlex | W2122921380 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay examines the competing readings of food refusal that emerged from a student hunger strike held at Columbia University in fall 2007. The invisibility of the act of food refusal forces hunger strikers to adopt performance strategies that make their (non)action visible as protest. To make the politics of their food refusal legible, advocates for the hunger strike promoted their actions as part of a 40 year tradition of student protest. However, that same invisibility allowed the protest's detractors to deride the hunger strikers as anorexic. At the center of the protest and the commentary about it was a wasting female body that confused for spectators the line between the political and the pathological. Attention to this body raises questions of how community is created and disciplined through performative acts, how easily female protest is evacuated of political meaning and the uneasy role of whiteness in popular attention to anorexia
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Anorexia · Art · Criminology · Invisibility · Meaning (existential · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Prison · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |