Search results for "abiezione"

Corpi esibiti, corpi celati, corpi negati

2011

The «male paradigm» is criticized by the feminist theory, because it contributes to create a society, where bodies are placed along a hierarchical scale. At its top there is the able-bodied male, and along it bodies that don’t fit the paradigm, like women’s ones and people with disabilities’ ones. They have a common destiny, because they are both requested to fit the cultural «dominant paradigm» but, however they try, it is impossible for them. They fall in a paradox, because they are - being invisible for the society, but also culturally constrained - forced to search this invisibility, because their body is considered «abject», and they are stigmatized due to them. It is necessary to chal…