Crimes Against Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stacy Holman Jones (0000-0001-8752-527X) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 608-618 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708609341167 |
| OpenAlex | W2032448127 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 12 |
Scott proposes that literary approaches offer us one way to read how identities are discursively constituted and understood as and of experience. She encourages us to read for and write how histories (personal, political, and social) are constructed and constructive. This article focuses on how difference, knowledge production, and witnessing produce identities as 'not something that was always already there simply waiting to be expressed, not something that will always exist in the form it was given.' In particular, the author considers her experience as a mother alongside Julia Kristeva's essay 'Stabat Mater,' which contrasts Catholic understandings of motherhood and femininity with her own experience of maternity, and Minne Bruce Pratt's poetry collection Crime Against Nature, which confronts the loss of Pratt's children following her coming out as a lesbian
Aesthetics · Art · Constructive · Femininity · Lesbian · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |