The Diabolical Strategy of Mimesis: Luce Irigaray's Reading of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Kozel, Susan

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1996.tb01018.x

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“…Similarly, our participants, Sarah and Cassandra, decided to ask their fiancé‐to‐be's parents for permission before dropping to one knee and popping the question. Mimesis offers a parodic rendition of the original act (Kozel, 1996), exposing that it is not the engagement, but who initiates it, that legitimizes the couple.…”

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“…The creation of a new symbolic order uses different strategies, among which mimesis, a reflexive strategy “to use a sexual stereotype”, and goes beyond it (Kozel, 1996, p. 125). Mimesis is the deliberate assumption of femininity through repetition of an imagery women have not built, a repetition that makes visible how femininity is a masquerade (Irigaray, 1985b).…”

Section: A Gendered Turn: Feminist Institutionalism and Luce Irigaraymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By making visible the performative work of femininity, mimesis is both playful and parodic. With mimesis, women can erode stereotypes from within by consciously stepping into them (Kozel, 1996) and enhance their sense of agency (Fotaki et al., 2014).…”

Section: A Gendered Turn: Feminist Institutionalism and Luce Irigaraymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Changing informal institutions via mimesis: Gender equality in marriage proposals

Hoelscher

Khanijou

Pirani

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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Marriage equality has exposed how the institution of marriage is changing, but less attention has been given to how informal institutions around heterosexual marriage rituals are affected by a growing demand for gender equality. By applying institutional theory and feminist institutionalism to the context of women proposing to their male partners, this paper observes how shifts in gender norms change heteronormative institutions. Drawing from interviews with women who proposed to men and a virtual ethnography, we describe how reverse proposals can set precedence for emulation of practices or mimetic isomorphism. We therewith contribute to institutional theory in threefold ways.First, we describe how mimetic isomorphism introduces new standards and norms into a highly traditional institution. Second, we show how this integration of new standards and norms serves this patriarchal institution to remain relevant and appear progressive. Finally, we contend that this tension of joining a patriarchal institution but doing so in a subversive manner represents a double bind for women who are encouraged by society to formalize their heteronormative relationships through marriage and yet chastised for initiating this themselves.

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Section: A Gendered Turn: Feminist Institutionalism and Luce Irigaraymentioning

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Changing informal institutions via mimesis: Gender equality in marriage proposals

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Khanijou

Pirani

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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“…For example, if women are viewed as illogical, they should speak logically about this view, thereby enacting the counter-narrative. Although critiqued for its relatively aggressive approach (Kozel 1996 ), an interactive storytelling environment could support stigma victims in enacting counter stories through, for example, theatrical props.…”

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Erasing stigmas through storytelling: why interactive storytelling environments could reduce health-related stigmas

Vegt,

Visch,

Spooren

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Design for Health

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In this article we describe how designers can apply storytelling to reduce health-related stigmas. Stigma is a pervasive problem for people with illnesses, such as obesity, and it can persistently hinder coping, treatment, recovery, and prevention. Reducing health-related stigma is complex because it is multi-layered and self-perpetuating, leading to intertwined vicious circles. Interactive storytelling environments can break these vicious circles by delimiting the narrative freedom of stigma actors. We theoretically explain the potential of interactive storytelling environments to reduce stigma through the following seven functions: 1) expose participants to other perspectives, 2) provide a protective frame, 3) intervene in daily conversations, 4) persuade all stigma actors, 5) exchange alternative understandings, 6) elicit understanding and support for stigma victims, and 7) support stigma victims to cope with stigmatization. We elaborate on these functions through a demonstration of an interactive storytelling environment against weight stigma. In conclusion, this article is a call on designers for health and wellbeing, scientists, and practitioners from various disciplines to be sensitive to the pervasiveness of stigma and to collaboratively create destigmatizing storytelling environments.

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Will the Real Joseph Gelfer Please Stand Up: Multiple Masculinities and the Self

Gelfer

2013

International and Cultural Psychology

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The Diabolical Strategy of Mimesis: Luce Irigaray's Reading of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Changing informal institutions via mimesis: Gender equality in marriage proposals

Changing informal institutions via mimesis: Gender equality in marriage proposals

Erasing stigmas through storytelling: why interactive storytelling environments could reduce health-related stigmas

Will the Real Joseph Gelfer Please Stand Up: Multiple Masculinities and the Self

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