Abstract

BORGHI, Rachele. The unworthy body. ETD [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.4, pp.789-801. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v18i4.8646439.

In this text I will discuss bodies, more specifically bodies out of the norm, these bodies that the heteropatriarchal sexist and capitalist gaze regards as out of place, in particular out of the public space. Bodies that, of course, must be placed aside, be marginalized, be turned invisible, be denied privileges. To do this, I'll tell you a story. And because I am a feminist, I start from myself. I would like to build my exposition on the relationship between space, social order and body control dynamics, a relationship built to keep the privileges of the dominant subjects and the social status quo. But rather than focus on the complaint of how social injustice was built also through space and its use and how each of us participates in a way more or less aware of the legitimacy or the refusal of spatial rules, I will focus on reactions, in actions and in the micropolitical confront, bypass and overflow of body control and the imposition of dominant norms. My approach is the queer transfeminism, I am a feminist, a feminist academic. My research and my work as a researcher, that is, what I will propose are from feminist epistemology. The feminist epistemology taught me that the division between theory and practice serves us to create hierarchical knowledge typologies, delegitimizing everything that does not refer to producers of legitimate knowledge with tools considered "scientific".

Keywords : Space; Body; Feminism; Performance; Queer Theory.

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