Public Bodies

This paper seeks to critically examine the capacity for the internet, as a revitalized public sphere, to adequately represent women. I present the argument that the public space of the internet limits the capacity for female vocality by overcoding-in the Deleuzo-Guattarian sense of despotic, unifyin...

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Published in:Feminist media studies 2014-05, Vol.14 (3), p.485-499
Main Author: Nurka, Camille
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Body
Body Image
Capitalism
Democracy
Females
Gender
Internet
Judgement
London, England
Public opinion
Public Space
Public spaces
Public Sphere
publicity
Regulation
Schizophrenia
Women
Womens studies
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Summary:This paper seeks to critically examine the capacity for the internet, as a revitalized public sphere, to adequately represent women. I present the argument that the public space of the internet limits the capacity for female vocality by overcoding-in the Deleuzo-Guattarian sense of despotic, unifying, and totalizing processes of representation (Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari. 1987. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 41. London: Athlone Press)-the female body images it solicits as aesthetic objects to be judged and consumed. I focus on forms of online polling to suggest that public judgments are powerful discursive mechanisms for the regulation and containment of the female body in public space.
ISSN:1468-0777
1471-5902
DOI:10.1080/14680777.2013.771693