Material Shifts: Theorizing Endometriosis, Embodiment, and Experimental Art
A body changed by illness demands new narrative modes. In this article, I use autothe- ory to foreground my experience of struggling with symptoms of endometriosis. I enter into conversation with feminist disability scholars who have theorized chronic illness and endometriosis as...
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International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture
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| description | A body changed by illness demands new narrative modes. In this article, I use autothe-
ory to foreground my experience of struggling with symptoms of endometriosis. I
enter into conversation with feminist disability scholars who have theorized chronic
illness and endometriosis as a disability, and think through some of the socio-eco-
nomic effects of doing so, particularly within academia. I examine how an experi-
mental arts-based practice can be a method of narrating chronic illness. Situated
within a disability art aesthetic, I use textiles to represent a chronic pain episode. These
images argue for the inherent worthiness of non-normative female embodiment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a2c4e32784fd45d784f9048c507e7c3c2022-12-21T23:32:08ZengInternational Graduate Centre for the Study of CultureOn_Culture2366-41422021-07-0111https://doi.org/10.22029/oc.2021.1221Material Shifts: Theorizing Endometriosis, Embodiment, and Experimental ArtEmma McKennaA body changed by illness demands new narrative modes. In this article, I use autothe- ory to foreground my experience of struggling with symptoms of endometriosis. I enter into conversation with feminist disability scholars who have theorized chronic illness and endometriosis as a disability, and think through some of the socio-eco- nomic effects of doing so, particularly within academia. I examine how an experi- mental arts-based practice can be a method of narrating chronic illness. Situated within a disability art aesthetic, I use textiles to represent a chronic pain episode. These images argue for the inherent worthiness of non-normative female embodiment.https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-11/material-shifts/feminist disability studiesfeminist cultural studieschronic illnessendometriosisautotheorytextile art |
| spellingShingle | Emma McKenna Material Shifts: Theorizing Endometriosis, Embodiment, and Experimental Art On_Culture feminist disability studies feminist cultural studies chronic illness endometriosis autotheory textile art |
| title | Material Shifts: Theorizing Endometriosis, Embodiment, and Experimental Art |
| title_full | Material Shifts: Theorizing Endometriosis, Embodiment, and Experimental Art |
| title_fullStr | Material Shifts: Theorizing Endometriosis, Embodiment, and Experimental Art |
| title_full_unstemmed | Material Shifts: Theorizing Endometriosis, Embodiment, and Experimental Art |
| title_short | Material Shifts: Theorizing Endometriosis, Embodiment, and Experimental Art |
| title_sort | material shifts theorizing endometriosis embodiment and experimental art |
| topic | feminist disability studies feminist cultural studies chronic illness endometriosis autotheory textile art |
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