Essays about: "fitting misfitting"

Found 1 essay containing the words fitting misfitting.

1. 1. “It could just as well be my body” : A posthumanist and phenomenological study of the becomings of an embodied female subject and her experiences of fitting and misfitting in relation to cosmetic body modifications

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Linnéa Viktorsson Blom; [2014]
   Keywords : Femininity; nomadic subject; fitting misfitting; cosmetic body modifications; dis ability; whiteness; becoming; resistance; beauty;

   Abstract : This thesis is a phenomenological study that has been carried out via two semi-structured interviews with an -  in conventional ways of categorising - 22 years old white, heterosexual, and middleclass Swedish woman, referred to as “Andrea”. The thesis aims to explore the becomings of Andrea in connection with cosmetic body modifications and her experiences in relation to this of fitting and misfitting, which are related to the dis/ability system. READ MORE