I'm here to see my gynaecologist

Reproductive justice and the Deleuzian becoming of Barbie

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ID4367113
AuthorsDella J Winters (0000-0003-2707-1354, California State University, Stanislaus, corresponding author), Courtney A Grimm (Ohio University), Raveena Bola (California State University, Stanislaus)
Year2024
Volume25
Issue4
Pages655-668
Publication date2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14647001241293587
OpenAlexW4404326279
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

Rejecting critiques of the final line of Greta Gerwig's Barbie as a bioessentialist classification of gender, we engage with the Deleuzian concept of becoming to argue that this final line is not only gender inclusive but gender expansive, particularly within the current political moment. Challenging settled, hegemonic gender identities through the unsettled and dynamic possibilities of becoming, we explore how this dialogue can be interpreted as messaging to promote bodily autonomy for all by focusing on the essential role of reproductive and sexual health as necessary for liberation. Despite Barbie exemplifying white feminism and commodifying liberatory messages into a product, the audience and their connections with the film's messages generate the possibilities of liberating white feminism from its self-imposed limitations through becoming and deterritorialisation

Abortion · Biology · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Reproductive justice · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law

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