Exploit marginalized difference through mimetic and disruptive readings (Irigaray's mime, Bell's philosophical clitoris) rather than expressing conflict as illness¶

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Description¶

The paper recommends working with the feminized construct in a less corporeal way by drawing on Irigaray's notion of becoming the mime, insinuating oneself into the language of the father to disrupt phallogocentric inscription, and Bell's reading from the position of the philosophical clitoris, an "unfaithful reading" that creates a disruptive moment of politicization. The power lies in difference and marginalized status, which should be consciously exploited for creative and constructive change rather than written on the body as illness.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Consciousness of and control over the differences being exploited, so they are used for change rather than somatic expression

Constraints¶

• The author states she does not really have answers and that the problem remains one of practicality; the ill body can also be disruptive but the price is too heavy

Target Learners¶

• Writing Program Administrators, particularly those in feminized or marginalized academic positions

Target Learning Goals¶

• Responding to structural conflict through political and discursive action rather than illness

Related Strategies¶

• Use a seven-perspective reflective heuristic (locus, process, politics, metaphor, history, existence, systems) to respond to professional conflict

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Gradin, Sherrie. (1998). Inscribing Our Work as WPAs: Gendered Bodies and Conflict as Physical Trope. ERIC. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED422588