Exploding Woman!
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https://doi.org/10.20873-rpvn9v1-05Keywords:
Plasticity, Gender, Malabou, WomanAbstract
Perhaps better considered a confessional than a traditional academic essay, this work is an exploration of the relationship between Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity and Woman. I ask the question, “what does it mean to ‘lay claim’ to Woman in our current gender context?” It begins with a short prologue, followed by an unraveling of Malabou’s plastic landscape. I then address and expand upon “The Woman Problem”, attempting to see the way in which it is shaped by gender context and how it also shapes the gender context itself. I suggest that Woman’s status is perhaps best emulated through the concept of explosive plasticity. Finally, I close with the allegory of Exploding Woman.
References
BUTLER, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 2006.
MALABOU, Catherine. What Should We Do With Our Brain? New York, New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2008.
PRECIADO, Paul B., and Frank Wynne. Can the Monster speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts. London, United Kingdom: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022.
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