Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Body Beautiful, British Nigerian, Cancer Survivor
18 Mar 2016
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Film title (the body beautiful) and relation to the body. Describes physical feelings of body (during altered state of pregnancy) Depicts bodies in different ages/ shapes/ skin colours (idea that all bodies are beautiful) English: adjectives come before nouns: post-nominal adjective: out of order, out of place, given the body" first, beautiful is what we make of it, challenges us to see beautiful differently. Counters dominant film norms, women we typically see in these film roles. Insistence to feature disability/ illness (aging body: represent madge as herself in desire. Narrate for each other, inter-subjectivity (subjects, meeting subjects, reciprocity and loving relations: challenges normative codes that make mixed raced bodies exotified and eliminate/ make invisible. The unrepresentable female nude: beauty out of the damage : cover of ny times, woman with breast cancer (why this on cover of magazine vs a healthy woman?) Breast is codified as signifier as femininity, penis for masculinity.
