Embodiment, Sexual Difference, and the Nomadic Subject

Braidotti, Rosi

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00625.x

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“…Braidotti's (1993) claim tbat poststmcturalism allows tbe idea of living transformations to be examined, taken togetber witb BuUer's attempts to Adolescent women, identity and smoking 629 deconstruct a fixed notion of identity, contribute to the underlying structure of the ideas presented here. In poststructuralist thought the subject is not a rational whole but a changing contradictory site, thus making possible a new politics of identity that can encompass gender, race, class and sexuality without hierarchies of c:ausation and political action.…”

Section: And Idratity In Adtdescencementioning

confidence: 96%

Adolescent women, identity and smoking: leisure experience as resistance

Wearing

Kelly³

1994

Sociology Health & Illness

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Recent theorising concerning leisure has suggested that this sphere, along with the family, the educational system and the occupation system, contributes to identity formation and more especially to gender identity. However, feminist analyses suggest that leisure can be both an area for the subordination and domination of women and an area of resistance to dominant ideologies and discourses. Questions are raised within this framework as to the need in late adolescence for girls, because of a lack of opportunity within their leisure experiences, to seek identity in other ways-smoking may be a form of resistance but also adopted bec^ause of a lack of leisure opportunities suitable for them. While males have role models and a culture that provides them with individual competitive pursuits which at least give them a perception of identity, women lack such a culture and are thus deprived of the opportunity to participate in leisure activities to the same extent as males. This paper argues that adventurous leisure which provides physic:al, mental and emotional challenge and satisfaction can provide a sound basis to resist gender stereotypes and provide altematives to tobacco consumption.

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Section: And Idratity In Adtdescencementioning

confidence: 96%

Adolescent women, identity and smoking: leisure experience as resistance

Wearing

Kelly³

1994

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Identities and subjectivities are interconnected but they are not identical. Subjectivity encompasses the historical, social and political possibilities of agency, while identity is linked to consciousness, desire and politics concerning what is imagined to be personal to the individual (Braidotti, 1993). In this way, identity emerges when the subjective, that is, the historical, political and social possibilities of existence, connects to the personal.…”

Section: Identity Subjectivity and Trans Organizationmentioning

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Practices of freedom and the disruption of binary genders: Thinkingwithtrans

Souza

Parker

2020

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This article, inspired by a reading of O’Shea’s piece in this journal in 2018 which problematized the production of ‘normal’ identities, considers the ‘practices of freedom’ performed by non-binary trans people and their capacity to embody resistance against binary heteronormative gender intelligibility. We want to think with trans in order to challenge gender binaries and argue that their practices of freedom not only transform themselves, but also others. We suggest that this could be understood as a form of Foucault’s ‘care of the self’, producing new ways of doing gender which are not reducible to ‘man’ or ‘woman’ but that produce new histories and subjectivities. Given the complicated ways in which non-binary trans people engage in care of the self, we propose that it is possible to understand this as a form of organizing that embodies an ethics which disturbs and recodes the dominant way that gender is organized. They prefigure an idea and practice of trans organizing, attempting to move beyond dualisms, opening new possibilities for liveable lives.

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“…Some posted 'Seriously average' selfies 'in reading glasses and without makeup' (Harper Simmons 3 April 2015), while others were seductively postured in bed 'getting ready for work' (Avery 3 April 2015), lying in a bubble bath (MadamMinxx 28 March 2015), or in dominatrix-inspired lingerie with black leather bra and red lipstick (Mistress Lily, 29 March 2015). For materialist feminists, female subjectivity originates in the corporeal and, far from being fixed and immutable, articulates multiplicity, complexity and, often, contradictory realms of experience (Braidotti, 1989(Braidotti, , 1993Grosz, 1994). That diversity was reflected in the range of contributors to the network whose social markers such as age, ethnicity, gender and sexuality appeared no barrier to entry.…”

Section: 'Show Your Face To Our Hashtag'mentioning

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Pussy power not pity porn: Embodied protest in the #FacesOfProstitution Twitter network

Middleweek

2019

Sexualities

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The use of selfies as a political tool is critical to the form, shape and expression of online activist networks. In the trending Twitter #FacesOfProstitution, such self-presenting practices challenged the prevailing politics of anonymity around sex work and articulated new modes of political organizing, agency and information dissemination within a networked online community. Analysing the sex worker online campaign using feminist materialist approaches to the body this interdisciplinary article contributes to current discussions about selfies and embodied forms of activism in online spaces and addresses a gap in sex advocacy literature on digital protest cultures.

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Embodiment, Sexual Difference, and the Nomadic Subject

Cited by 100 publications

References 6 publications

Adolescent women, identity and smoking: leisure experience as resistance

Adolescent women, identity and smoking: leisure experience as resistance

Practices of freedom and the disruption of binary genders: Thinkingwithtrans

Pussy power not pity porn: Embodied protest in the #FacesOfProstitution Twitter network

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