Beside myself
Touch, Maternity and the Question of Embodiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicolette Bragg (0000-0001-5906-1383, Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-155 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464700119853339 |
| OpenAlex | W2970688312 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article uses the surprising bodily effects of a period following birth to unsettle the reproductive narrative that circumscribes the maternal relation. Drawing on scholarship on skin and touch within philosophy and feminist and queer theory, 'Beside myself' demonstrates how an intensely intimate relationship can throw into relief modes of embodiment that trouble the temporality and space presumed of reproduction. Doing so, it calls attention to the limits of materialist discourses of embodiment. With reference to Gayle Salamon's Assuming a Body, it describes an embodied subjectivity that exceeds the material contours of the body. A sense of being 'beside' oneself and 'beside' another stretches the time and space of the body, not only creating fractures within the reproductive frame, but also putting pressure on matter and possession as conditions for subjectivity
Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Materialism · Narrative · Normative · Queer · Scholarship · Sociology · Subjectivity · Temporality · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |