A challenge to the masculinist gaze: human resources by Gabriela Liffschitz
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X74211Keywords:
Human resources, Masculine gazeAbstract
Gabriela Liffschitz's body as exhibited in Recursos humanos (2000) through a series of thirty self-portraits constitutes a commitment to the dynamics of the masculinist gaze and the aspect that it seeks/interprets, a commitment that advances to become a challenge to that dynamic. Liffschitz accomplishes this by displaying her own body in such a way that she reverses the look/look dynamic to the point that the woman's middle-aged body, sporting a partial mastectomy, is supposedly shocking to that dynamic.
Downloads
References
ALTMAN, Roberta. Waking Up/Fighting Back; The Politics of Breast Cancer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.
GÓMEZ-QUINTERO, Raysa Elena Amador and Mayra Pérez Bustillo. The Female Body: Perspective of Latin American Artists. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 2002.
BOUSQUET, Jean Pierre. Las locas de la Playa de Mayo. Trans. Jacques Despres. Buenos Aires: El Cid Editor, 1983. Orig. pub. in French in 1982 as Les Folles de la Place de Mai.
BREAST Cancer; A Psychological Treatment Manual. New York: Springer Publishing, 1995.
CHICAGO, Judy. The Dinner Party. New York, Penguin, 1996.
De LAURETIS, Teresa. The Practice of Love; Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994.
DELEUZE, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. by Robert Hurley et al. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983.
DRAPER, Ellen. "Gaze." Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory. Ed. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. 176-78.
DWORKIN, Andrea. Intercourse. New York: Free P, 1987.
EDSON, Margaret. Wit; A Play. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999.
ENSLER, Eve. The Vagina Monologues. The V-Day Edition. New York: Villard, 2001.
THE FEMALE Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. Susan Rubin Suleiman. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986.
GARAY, María Cristina. Diccionario de la discriminación de la mujer en el lenguaje. Buenos Aires: Editorial Argenta Sarlep, 1994.
INCE, Kate. Orlan; Millennial Female. Oxford: Berg, 2000.
LATTEIER, Carolyn. Breats: The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth P, 1998.
LEVY, Marvyn. The Moons of Paradise; Some Reflections on the Appearance of the Female Breast in Art... New York: The Citadel P, 1965.
LIFFSCHITZ, Gabriela. Recursos humanos. Buenos Aires: Filòlibri, 2000.
LIFFSCHITZ, Gabriela. Venecia. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Ultimo Reino, 1990.
LORDE, Audre. The Cancer Journals. Special ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1997.
LOVE, Susan M. Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1990.
MORGAN, Robin. "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape." Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches, 1968-1992. New York: W.W., North, 1992. 78-89.
REFRAMINGS: New American Feminist Photographies. Ed. Diane Neumaier. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1995.
STEIMBERG, Alicia. Cuando digo Magdalena. Buenos Aires: Planeta Biblioteca Sur, 1992.
STEIMBERG, Alicia. La loca 101. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1973.
STEIMBERG, Alicia. La selva. Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2000.
SUARDÍAZ, Delia Esther. Sexism in the Spanish Language. M.A. thesis, University of Washington, 1973.
TAYLOR, Barry. Palpable Signs: Contemporary Women Photographers. London: Scarlet, 1999.
THOMSON, Rosemarie Garland. "Physical Disability." Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory. Ed. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. 307-08.
VALLEJO, Soledad. "Lolas a la vista." http://www.pagina 12.com.ar/2001/suple/Las12/01-01/01-01-12/nota-4.htm
WEYR, Thomas. Reaching for Paradise: The Playboy Vision of America. New York: Times Books, 1978.
WOLF, Naomi. The Beauty Myth. London: Chatto & Windus, 1990.
WOLF, Naomi. Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. Ed. Katie Conboy et al. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
YALOM, Marilyn. A History of the Breast. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Downloads
Published
Versions
- 2004-01-01 (2)
- 2004-01-01 (1)
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
DECLARAÇÃO DE ORIGINALIDADE E EXCLUSIVIDADE E CESSÃO DE DIREITOS AUTORAIS
Declaro que o presente artigo é original e não foi submetido à publicação em qualquer outro periódico nacional ou internacional, quer seja em parte ou na íntegra. Declaro, ainda, que após publicado pela Literatura e Autoritarismo, ele jamais será submetido a outro periódico. Também tenho ciência que a submissão dos originais à Literatura e Autoritarismo implica transferência dos direitos autorais da publicação digital. A não observância desse compromisso submeterá o infrator a sanções e penas previstas na Lei de Proteção de Direitos Autorais (nº 9610, de 19/02/98).
