GSFS 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deaf Culture, Frida Kahlo, Bipolar Disorder

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 303
• Professor: Mary Bunch

Document Summary

Disability culture: representation vs. self-representation: culture shared set of values, institutions; always changing; web of meaning, several cultures about disability, representation objectification. Better-off dead mercy killing or suicide: controversial representations. I. e. million dollar baby: romanticized representations. I. e. the sea inside: representation in literature. Richard as a figure whose deformity emblematizs pre-modern interpretations of bodily difference. Virginia woolf"s septimus smith shell shock. Hyppolite in madame bovary: representation vs. self-representation. Her writings and biography have been analyzed to determine if she had bipolar spectrum disorder and/or schizophrenia: on being ill . Short piece written after she was ill for several months. Virginia woolf talks about her own experience of illness, while reflecting on why the body and its pain is absent from the literature of the time. Virginia woolf talks about the loneliness surrounding illness and how ill people become outcasts: frida kahlo. Accident at 16 years old that damaged her spine.