Feminist Disavowal or Return to Immanence? The Problem of Poststructuralism and the Naked Female Form in Nic Green's Trilogy and Ursula Martinez' My Stories, Your Emails
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3946458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Gorman (0000-0003-3138-6981, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-64 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.2013.19 |
| OpenAlex | W2020077461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This essay discusses the work of two female theatre-makers, and their strategic use of nudity on stage. The author appropriates signs of indignation in this work in order to re-visit the 'problem' of the female form being traditionally associated with bodily immanence rather than transcendence. Both Nic Green's Trilogy (2009-2010) and Ursula Martinez' My Stories, Your Emails (2010) use the naked female form to proffer statements about the experience of being a woman in the 2000s. Their use of nudity breaks with feminist theories popular in the 1990s, which argued that because the female form could never escape the symbolic logic of phallocentrism, it could never escape sexual objectification, and thus should operate on the margins of mainstream culture, cultivate agency by appropriating the means of production and be removed from view (radical negativity). By identifying as 'artists' and by insisting on their right to put their experience centre stage, Green and Martinez break with the anti-humanist theories of the 1990s and proffer a more individualistic strain of feminist performance. The author celebrates this work as a break away from the deadlock offered by theories of radical negativity
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Art · Art history · Counterculture · Epistemology · Feminism · Immanence · Literature · Mainstream · Media studies · Objectification · Popular culture · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Trilogy · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Samuel Beckett and Modernism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |