[Vwoolf] Judith Shakespeare

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Molly Hite, “Virginia Woolf’s Two Bodies,” *Genders* 31 (2000). (
http://www.genders.org website appears to be down.
https://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/jgenders.html)

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Jeannette Smyth <
jeannette_smyth at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
> For a friend who is writing a book about food spirituality and
> existentialism, among other things, I am looking for fairly sophisticated
> thinkers about the striking idea Woolf touches upon in *A Room of One’s
> Own, *that Shakespeare’s sister picks up and puts on her body, and takes
> it off and puts it down.
> This reverberates strongly with my friend’s own experience and thinking.
> Having left the academic study of Woolf and feminism some years ago, I am
> not sure  what the scholarly terminology would be for this theme of
> Woolf’s. It is so much more than body dysphoria, and much more about the
> transgressive idea that women are not ghosts, their bodies take up space.
> (Anorexia is vibrating here on the periphery, and the largeness of drag
> kings.) I think there must be a lot of excellent queer theory around this
> difficulty, of being visible, and I wonder if you all would be so kind as
> to free associate any good work you can think of with the tale of Judith
> Shakespeare, and Woolf’s own sense of being invisible and visible.
>
> With thanks
> Jeannette Smyth
>
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