Dead meat

Feeding at the anatomy table of Gunther von Hagens'Body Worlds

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4367141
AutoresRosemary Deller (Central European University, Hungary, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen12
Número3
Páginas241-261
Fecha de publicación2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700111417665
OpenAlexW2030976284
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas39

Whether in the growing awareness of the origins of supermarket meat or the emergence of meat art, carnality appears to be something increasingly under question. Yet, despite meat carrying connotations that offer provocative connection with feminist concerns regarding the body, consumption and the cultural representation of women, meat consciousness has been only sporadically explored in existing feminist theory. Struck, however, by the comparisons between the dissected Body Worlds corpse and the filleted flesh of meat that are levelled most particularly at female bodies on display, I examine in my article the bodily relations constructed in the Body Worlds exhibition by positioning the Body Worlds cadaver as a grotesque 'meaty' body under the broader rubric of the Bakhtinian carnivalesque. Within such webs of alimentary exchange, pleats of meaty matter may bring about localised eruptions of traditional and bodily engagements - including that of the gendered gaze - that entwine the possibility of pleasure, wonder and fascination into each act of inter-bodily engagement. Through this entrance into the very bowels of Body Worlds, my article ultimately asks what, as a feminist, it means to become meat conscious

Aesthetics · Art · Carnivalesque · Epistemology · Pleasure · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Wonder · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Psychology