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This Body Which Is Not One: Speaking an Embodied Self

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Elspeth Probyn
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This article argues against a conception of the body as providing a basis for truth claims within feminist discourse. Taking from Michèle Le Doeuffs theory of the work of the image within discourse, and Michel Foucault's “technologies of the self,” it is argued that the doubledness of the body (“who am I? and who is she?”) can be put to work to construct embodied enunicative positions within feminist theory.

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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and the Body , Fall 1991, pp. 111 - 124
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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