Recovering Women: Feminisms And The Representation Of Addiction

by Melissa Friedling

Overview

Recovering Women: Feminism and the Representation of Addiction seeks to clarify the status of feminisms in contemporary culture and specify the problematics of feminist recovery rhetorics. Overall, Recovering Women is about feminism and its status in intellectual discourse and movement politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367300685
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2021
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.31(h) x (d)

About the Author

Melissa Pearl Friedling is Assistant Professor of Film in the Department of Art/Media Studies at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

List of Photos vii

Acknowledgments ix

1 Addiction, Rhetoric, and Feminism: The Ballad of (Hetero) Sexual Dependency 1

Addiction and the Question of Feminism 3

Performative Interpretations and Methodologies 6

The Trajectory of the Texts: A Volume of Loss … a Ballad of Love 12

Notes 23

2 Drew Barrymore's Coming of Age(ncy): The Performance of Addiction and the Challenge of Feminist Criticism 29

E.T.: Barrymore and the Extratextual 33

Dirty White Girl 35

The Recovery Rhetoric of "Girl Talk": Barrymore and "Do Me" Feminism 45

Notes 52

3 Funny, She Doesn't look Drew-ish: Jewish Addicts and the "Truth" of Recovery 59

(Re)covering the Jew-woman, "Fixing" the Jewish Feminist 61

Lydon's "Trip" Home: Difference in the Name of the Mother 64

The Guilty Daughter's Rite: Leaving Mother's House on Empty Stomach 68

Motherless Daughters: Homelessness and the Anxiety of Choice for "The Chosen," 71

A Kinder, Gentile, Derrida: Citing Differance, Curing the Jewish Woman's Addiction 75

Notes 78

4 Recovering the "Special Issue" of Feminist Art and Performance: Women, Children, and Lesbians Last 83

Theory, Practice, and the Generational Sex/Gender Divide 87

"Daughters of the Revolution": V-Girls and the Performance of Re/covery 103

Notes 109

5 Passing, Queering, and Recovering: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Performance of Plastic Surgery 115

The Art of Plastic Surgery: Feminism, Identity, Psychoanalysis, and Bodies that Matter 124

Orlan™: Synthetic Identity, Self-Naming, and the Politics of Passing 131

Fenunist Psychoanalysis and Saint Orlan: The Academic Blind Spot 137

Eye Job to Eye Job: Orlan Meets Connie Chung 139

Notes 147

6 Nan Goldin's Retrospective and Recovery: Framing Feminism, AIDS, and Addiction 155

Retrospectives and the Institution 158

Frame Within a Frame 172

S(l)ide Show: AIDS, Feminism, and Performative Acts 179

Notes 181

Bibliography 185

Index 193