In Written on the Body, Winterson disturbs fixed boundaries and rigidly gendered identities that objectify the body in order to build up a concept of the body that is fluid and leaves room for changes and mergings with other bodies, where bodies are held together not by a stable body image and a gendered identity, but by forces of connection and interaction between parts of the body. The text produces different meanings depending on whether the narrator is read as a man or a woman, and sexuality requires a basic human sameness from which a host of differences emerge that may or may not be gendered. However, by constructing a lover/narrator whose gender remains undeclared, Winterson manages to unsettle perceptions of gendered difference. The androcentric concept of sexuality that associates penetration with the exploration of hidden depths and the achievement of power and knowledge is unmasked as necrophiliac. Likewise, Winterson criticizes the equation of the female body with a penetrable surface. Against this, a concept of wholeness is strategically employed. Winterson develops a critique of androcentric science and medicine that strives to know the female body by dissecting it, analogous to the way modern society compartmentalizes human lives into neat manageable units. Written on the Body offers constructive ways of theorizing the female body within a postmodern framework, because it is shaped by concepts of wholeness and fragmentation at the same time. Feminist appropriations of those concepts can be problematic: they tend to focus on the way in which a coherent body image is constructed and then imposed on the body parts, whereas many feminist theorists continue to emphasize the wholeness and integrity of the female body. Urn:oclc:857081035 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120108205250 Scanner article is concerned with Jeanette Winterson's use and reworking of postmodern concepts of the body in her novel Written on the Body. Download Citation Jeanette Winterson: Written on the Body (1992) Everything I have written is a questa quest for self, Winterson wrote in the program notes to her dramatization of The. OL1918834W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.00 Pages 202 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0394280148 Urn:lcp:writtenonbody000wint:epub:bda1a363-2b9a-4de3-b036-5bafa5d80dd4 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier writtenonbody000wint Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3hx2cv1k Isbn 9780679420071Ġ67942007X Lccn 92054475 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1745148M Openlibrary_edition

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