Mapping Redesign
Gynecological Neoliberalism and the Spatiality of Project Yona’s Speculum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12099622 |
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| Authors | Berkley Conner (0000-0003-1159-6252, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 611-631 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s Studies in Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-1409 • E-ISSN: 2152-999X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07491409.2021.1925797 |
| OpenAlex | W3176120675 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
This essay offers a spatial reading of a prototype for a redesigned speculum and pelvic exam by the technology design team Yona. I contend that the speculum is a racialized and gendered technology that must be understood as situated in a history of the body as space. Using the theoretical tools of feminist geographers and rhetoricians of health and medicine, I interpret the redesign of the speculum through the reassembly of social relations and map how the speculum’s redesign alters the relationality of bodily space. Yona’s exigencies for redesign move the speculum from a troubled history of inefficiency and violence toward neoliberal, feminist notions of health and health care. I clarify how Yona’s reimagined device and exam remap patient bodies in the image of empowerment to produce a patient who is responsible for their own health care, effectively reproducing new formations of oppressive power geometries in the space of the body
Empowerment · Health care · Inefficiency · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Power (physics · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Artificial Intelligence
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Queer Migration Politics
Black on Both Sides
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Transforming Citizenships
Archival ambience and sensory memory
Repunctuated Feminism
Ten Propositions for Communication Scholars Studying Space and Place
Rhetorical Places
Shooting the Mother
Screening the Body
Kairos as Indeterminate Risk Management
Reshaping the “Pillow Angel”
Inescapable Ecologies
The Agency of the Spatial
Queering Reproduction
The Body of Race
The Visible Woman
In a Queer Time and Place
Young Women and Consumer Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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