The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities

Dawn Woolley

Jump to Content

Chapter 1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities

于Bodies in Flux

著者：

Dawn Woolley

Dawn Woolley
Search for other papers by Dawn Woolley in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed

类型:: 章节

Page Range:: 9–35

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004408760_003

Purchase instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):

€42.00€35.00 excl. VAT

Add to Cart

找回访问令牌

Abstract

As an artist I examine how photographs discipline an individual’s relationship to her or his body and society. Working on the premise that the idealization of certain bodies has led to a reduced visual language of expression for the body, I explore ways of expanding this iconography. As a historical backdrop to this study, I discuss photographs created in La Salpêtrière hospital in the late-nineteenth century. During this time, the women who best performed the contorted shapes of hysteria were photographed for the Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (Charcot). Film stars began to imitate the women in the photographs, and the gestures of hysteria transformed popular expressions of passion.

In this chapter 1 examine the cyclical relationship between body ideals, online social networks and individual bodies by exploring the selfie’s potential for self-creation, performance and masquerade. Alongside the ‘healthy’ productive body I will consider illness as a form of unconscious protest, referring to hysteria and its contemporary counterparts, binge and restrict eating disorders. Using the Foucauldian notion of the disciplined body, I will theorize online social networks and selfies as potential sites for disruption of hegemonic body-image ideals.

引用信息

Save
Cite
Email this content

Share Link

Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend
Email this content
or copy the link directly:

https://brill.edhh.ma/abstract/book/edcoll/9789004408760/BP000003.xml
The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.

Link copied successfully

折叠
展开
回到页面顶端

Bodies in Flux

Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism

丛编： At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 卷： 128

ISBN:: 9789004408760

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 20 Aug 2019

Subjects

Front Matter

Back Matter

统计数据

	全部期间	过去一年	过去30天
摘要浏览次数	2245	1315	102
全文浏览次数	30	6	0
PDF下载次数	29	6	0

African Studies	Education	Media Studies
American Studies	History	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	Musicology
Art History	International Law	Philosophy
Asian Studies	International Relations	Religious Studies
Biblical Studies	Jewish Studies	Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Biology	Languages and Linguistics	Social Sciences
Book History and Cartography	Life Sciences	Theology and World Christianity
Classical Studies	Literature and Cultural Studies

Subjects

AppBar-Authors 2025

AppBar-Open Access 2025

AppBar-Product Information 2025

AppBar-Company 2025

AppBar-Contact 2025

Chapter 1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities

Abstract

引用信息

Share Link

Bodies in Flux

Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism

目录

统计数据

统计数据