Embodiment and Desire: All About My Mother and Gender in The Margin
This essays does a reading of Pedro Almodovars film All About My Mother, focusing on the transvestite character, Agrado. After drawing a comparison with other films on the subject of transgendering, I discuss notions of embodiedness and the construction of the subject by placing them in the conte...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2002-01-01
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| description | This essays does a reading of Pedro Almodovars film All About My Mother, focusing on
the transvestite character, Agrado. After drawing a comparison with other films on the subject of
transgendering, I discuss notions of embodiedness and the construction of the subject by placing
them in the context of theories about the body in Brazilian ethnology. My purpose is to offer
some elements for a reflection on the experiences at/of the margins as a way of renewing the
theoretical debates in feminist and gender studies. The bodily experience of becoming the
other dramatizes the mechanisms that are in play in the construction of difference and can be
seen as an anti-hierarchical force destabilizing dominant politics of subjectivity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-361f0aab2ccc4ccf89c37af558f902af2022-12-21T23:41:22ZspaUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaRevista Estudos Feministas0104-026X1806-95842002-01-011018204Embodiment and Desire: All About My Mother and Gender in The MarginSônia Weidner Maluf0Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaThis essays does a reading of Pedro Almodovars film All About My Mother, focusing on the transvestite character, Agrado. After drawing a comparison with other films on the subject of transgendering, I discuss notions of embodiedness and the construction of the subject by placing them in the context of theories about the body in Brazilian ethnology. My purpose is to offer some elements for a reflection on the experiences at/of the margins as a way of renewing the theoretical debates in feminist and gender studies. The bodily experience of becoming the other dramatizes the mechanisms that are in play in the construction of difference and can be seen as an anti-hierarchical force destabilizing dominant politics of subjectivity.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/9553cinemacorpotransgênero |
| spellingShingle | Sônia Weidner Maluf Embodiment and Desire: All About My Mother and Gender in The Margin Revista Estudos Feministas cinema corpo transgênero |
| title | Embodiment and Desire: All About My Mother and Gender in The Margin |
| title_full | Embodiment and Desire: All About My Mother and Gender in The Margin |
| title_fullStr | Embodiment and Desire: All About My Mother and Gender in The Margin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embodiment and Desire: All About My Mother and Gender in The Margin |
| title_short | Embodiment and Desire: All About My Mother and Gender in The Margin |
| title_sort | embodiment and desire all about my mother and gender in the margin |
| topic | cinema corpo transgênero |
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