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Journal article
Imaging the visceral soma: A corporeal feminist
The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, Vol.6(1)
2006
Abstract
Feminist philosophers of technoscience have long argued that it is vital that we question biomedical and scientific claims to an immaterial and disembodied objectivity, and also, more specifically, that we disable the conception of medical visualising technologies as neutral or transparent conduits to the "fact" of the body. In this paper we suggest that corporeal feminism is well situated to provide such a critique. Feminist phenomenologists over the past decade have theorised embodiment in a number of critical ways, many deriving concepts from the work of Merleau-Ponty, and emphasising the pliability and diversity of our body images and corporeal schematics. Others such as Elizabeth Wilson, Cathy Waldby and Drew Leder have considered the interdependence of our inner biology or viscerality with the socio-cultural inscriptions of embodiment. In this paper, these adaptations of phenomenology, and their account of the specificity and depth of embodied being, will be discussed and applied to the discourse of biomedicine and the apparatus of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Details
- Title
- Imaging the visceral soma: A corporeal feminist
- Authors/Creators
- I. Richardson (Author/Creator)C. Harper (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, Vol.6(1)
- Publisher
- NISC Digital & Print Publishing
- Identifiers
- 991005544070707891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media, Communication and Culture
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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