ORCID Profile
0000-0002-9998-9466
Current Organisation
University of Adelaide
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1995
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2007
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 09-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-05-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2002
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-07-2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-06-2022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 12-2019
Abstract: Drawing on primary and secondary sources including Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum patient files (specifically for the years 1863–1874), trial notes, newspaper reports, medical treatises, parliamentary debates, government reports, and juridical texts, this paper offers a critical genealogy of what we identify as the key somatechnologies that contributed to the gathering together, for the first time in British history, of a large number of women who murdered (or attempted to murder) their offspring in a purpose-built asylum for the criminally insane. Our analysis offers a (necessarily partial) mapping of the dispositif – that is, the ‘thoroughly heterogeneous ensemble … of discourses, institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic propositions' ( Foucault 1980b : 194) – that we contend engendered a culturally- and historically-specific configuration of the maternal filicide that thoroughly saturated the lives of women on whom this study is based.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1997
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-07-2012
Abstract: Drawing on Sara Ahmed, this article confronts the often repeated claim that feminists and/or social constructionists – even those whose work appears to focus on ‘the body’ – routinely ignore the materiality of corporeal life. This charge is often accompanied by the claim that poststructuralist feminists have, for connected reasons, also ignored ‘non-human animal’ life. This article critically interrogates the ways in which the somatechnics of perception and particular universalizing epistemic sexing practices feed into and out of one another in much contemporary work on ‘animal sex’. It also aims to build on Ahmed’s critique of the founding gestures of the new materialism in and through a close engagement with the work of a small number of theorists who identify with the new materialism.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 23-01-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1999
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