CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Green, Marja Veera |
|---|---|
| Title | Fluid Embodiments: a Narrative Analysis of Hormonal Contraception Usage in Berlin |
| Summary | Hormonal contraception is integral to a biopolitical system that disciplines and controls women’s bodies through neoliberal mandates of self-management. Grounded in feminist science and technology studies (FSTS), this thesis asks how we can refigure hormonal contraception as an ethical and potentially subversive tool. With the objective of theorizing paths that escape the disciplinary regime from within, the thesis traces embodiments of hormonal contraception that inhabit and refigure body/technology fluidly. I trace processes of subjectification with hormonal contraception through an analysis of narratives from Berlin, Germany. These narratives are read diffractively, elaborating metaphors and figures, to think subjectivities in technoculture more affirmatively. Political figurations elaborated in this thesis, like the pill as ‘little partner’, invite a fluid embodiment of self/technology. Propelling an open-ended becoming with technology, they can potentially incite us to get in touch with our own sense of alterity. Through this, these figurations contribute to a feminist ethics based on in/stable categories of nature/culture. Key words: hormonal contraception, feminist science and technology studies (FSTS), embodiment, narratives, figurations |
| Supervisor | Yoon, Hyaesin; Ortiz Gómez, Teresa |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/green_marja.pdf |
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