ARTS3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Adrienne Rich, Bodymind, Walter Benjamin
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Feminism manifests in generalizable sets of methods that organize bodies in space in a micro level. These processes/methods are empirical/analytical (writing; recording; inspection, etc. ) One needs to study the kind of body the current society needs (foucault, body/power, 58) Place on map = place in history in which i am created and i am trying to create . Rose time geography: individual subject who is all powerful, can go anywhere they please > infinitely accessible space = masculinist and problematic; universality/availability of space; women not fully. Male presumption you will always know where you are/where to go. Female: more relationality (will ask for directions, etc. ) Need to focus on the everyday; female constraints in the public space. For feminists, the everyday routines traced by women are never unimportant, because the seemingly banal and trivial events of the structures of the everyday are bound into the power structures which limit and confine women (rose 234)
