成为亚马逊:女性气质，体现和性在摄影和数字乳腺癌项目

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LITERATURE

LITERATURE AND MEDICINE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/lm.2023.a911446

Katja Herges

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摘要:近几十年来，乳腺癌和乳房切除术患者的数字和摄影生活叙事已经得到了公众的关注。这篇文章探讨了当代柏林的一个纪录片和时尚摄影项目是如何通过扮演亚马逊战士的乳腺癌患者来重新思考女性气质、体现和性的规范概念的。基于女性主义理论、残疾研究、媒体研究，尤其是吉尔·德勒兹的“成为”概念，我创造了“成为-亚马逊”这个词来描述这个项目所开启的关系主体性形成过程。Uta Melle的项目将乳房切除术后的身体转变为不女性化，不完整或无性的概念，并设想和庆祝关系女性的多样性，体现和不同的色情区域。通过将数字癌症行动主义与可见性、差异和身体间性的美学和政治相结合，Melle的项目介入了当代癌症话语，并扰乱了被认为是救赎的癌症文化。

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Becoming-Amazon: Femininity, Embodiment, and Sexuality in a Photographic and Digital Breast Cancer Project

Abstract: In recent decades, digital and photographic life narratives by women living with breast cancer and mastectomy have gained public visibility. This article examines how a documentary and fashion photography project in contemporary Berlin rethinks normative concepts of femininity, embodiment, and sexuality through the performance of the breast cancer patient as Amazon warrior. Based on feminist theory, disability studies, media studies, and in particular Gilles Deleuze's concept of becoming , I coin the term "becoming-Amazon" for the process of relational subjectivity formation that the project opens up. Uta Melle's project shifts notions of post-mastectomy bodies as unfeminine, incomplete, or asexual and envisions and celebrates a multiplicity of relational femininities, embodiments, and erotic zones with difference. By combining digital cancer activism and an aesthetics and politics of visibility, difference, and intercorporeality, Melle's project intervenes in contemporary cancer discourse and unsettles what has been considered as redemptive cancer culture.

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期刊介绍： Literature and Medicine is a journal devoted to exploring interfaces between literary and medical knowledge and understanding. Issues of illness, health, medical science, violence, and the body are examined through literary and cultural texts. Our readership includes scholars of literature, history, and critical theory, as well as health professionals.