Transforming Bodies

PŇAČEKOVÁ, Michaela. Transforming Bodies. In Transformations – Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference, Cardiff University, Great Britain. 2011.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Transforming Bodies

Název česky

Transformace těla

Autoři

PŇAČEKOVÁ, Michaela

Vydání

Transformations – Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference, Cardiff University, Great Britain, 2011

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Konferenční abstrakt

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/11:00056275

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

Politika těla; gender; plastické operace; identita; ideologie; pandrogynie; poststrukturalismus

Klíčová slova anglicky

Body Politics; cosmetic surgery; gender; identity; ideology; pandrogyny; post-structuralism; transgender

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Anotace

V originále

The paper is going to discuss the concept of identity transformations via various forms of gender performance (via language, acts and the body). Concretely, I am going to focus on two forms of gender performance – pandrogyny and transgenderism (including inter-gender) and compare them. Pandrogyny is 'a process' of two (and more) people undergoing a series of cosmetic surgeries to 'look' like each other because they 'are' each other. The word 'process' is crucial here as it presupposes the fluidity of identity - an important concept for this discussion. Pandrogyny differs very much from the notion of transgenderism; which is usually understood as ‘being trapped in the incorrect body’, and hence there is a final aim of one’s transformation – an end goal. Thus although both of these forms of identity transformations are deconstructing common notions of gender, sex and the body; they are different ways of identity construction. Moreover, not only will I discuss notions such as identity, gender and the body, I will also look at cosmetic surgery as means of co-constructing the pandrogynous and transgendered identity. In this context, I will look at plastic surgery as a way of deconstructing its typical meaning of a medical consumption representive (marketed as cure for aging and out-of-the-standard looks) and a way of rejecting the normative beauty discourses.

Česky

Ve svém článku se soustřeďuji na dekonstrukci těla a identity a to na případu pandrogenii - novém způsobu rekonstruování identity pomocí politiky těla.