(Dis)ease: The Rhetoric of Illness in Depictions of the Healthy Female Body from Hippocrates to the Present
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: I know no woman-virgin, mother, lesbian, married, celibate-whether she earns her keep as a housewife, a cocktail waitress, or a scanner of brain waves-for whom her body is not a fundamental problem: its clouded meaning, its fertility, its desire, its so-called frigidity, its bloody speech, its silences, its changes and mutilations, its rapes and ripenings.There is for the first time today a possibility of converting our physicality into both knowledge and power.-Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.-Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
Author: Zoë Adams
Institution: Vassar College
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1262332416