Monique Genton

mongo@mindlink.bc.ca

 

Swimming in the Intersticies

Footnotes


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Others like Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti have described such as space as well, eg. a "nomadic" female status as a site from which female experience can be represented outside of a phalocentric language that renders the female as subject and not agent.

 

 

 

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2

Rosi Raidotti, Emobidment and Sexual Difference in Contemporay Feminsit Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994 pp 78-80.

 

 

 

 

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3

Note the word for lens in French is "objectif"

 

 

 

 

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4

Lyba and Nita Sheffied, Swimming Simplified, (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1929)

 

 

 

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5

Susan R. Bordo, "The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought," Sex and Scientific Inquiry, Ed. S. Harding and J O'Barr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987). p.p. 247-264.

 

 

 

 

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6

See Bordo, for an psychological analyses of how objectivity compensates for the pain of a male child's separation from its mother. The objective human becomes instead the architect and master of separation, and objectivity acts as compensation--"assuagement," rather than helplessness.

 

 

 

 

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7

Francis Bacon, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon, ed. B. Garringlton (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1970), quoted in S. Bordo, p.p. 258-9.

 

 

 

 

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8

Arnold Berleant, "The Sensuous and the Sensual in Aesthetics," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol xx111(23) #2, (Winter 1964).

 

 

 

 

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9

Again, that senses themselves can be particularized distinctly within perception is another indication of probematic fracturing of the body.

 

 

 

 

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10

Charles Sprawson, HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR--THE SWIMMER AS HERO (London: Jonathan Cape, 1992), p. 89.

 

 

 

 

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11

Kat Chopin, The Awakening, (Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & C., © 1899).

 

 

 

 

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