Feminist therapy, art and embodiment practices: reclaiming the female body?

The female body has long been constructed by feminism as in need of reclamation. Singleton draws upon feminist praxis in therapy, art and embodiment to consider what such a reclamation might look like, and constructs both counternarratives and counterstrategies to generate trans-inclusive alternatives to the present "problem" of the female body. The chapter draws upon the affective imaginary of the female self in generative feminist political work to establish therapy centres for women, and considers economies of visibility in cultural representations of female and othered bodies in the work of Judy Chicago, Maria Abramović and Lola Flash. Examining two feminist poles of perspective on women's embodied experiences, such as tattoos and bodybuilding, Singleton then makes a provocative argument for a call to feminist arms to transcend the disciplinary milieu of the categorically female body, with insistence on reconstruction of the apparent opposition of masculine and feminine.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41531-9