Placing the ‘mad woman’: troubling cultural representations of being a woman with mental illness in <i>Girl Interrupted</i>
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Abstract In this article, I examine cultural narratives about the lives and places of women with mental illness in the commercial Hollywood film: Girl Interrupted (1999). In contrast to most of the disability studies literature concerned with cultural representation, this article explicitly examines how the spatiality of 'mad women's' lives is constructed through film. Drawing on post-structuralist, and feminist perspectives on disability, and on conceptual ideas from the limited social geographic literature concerned with the lives of persons with mental illness, I explore the contradictory cultural narratives about the lives and places of women with mental illness constructed through this film. This approach recognizes that representations of 'mad women' and their places in society and space involve contradictory, tension-laden relationships between spectator and cultural product, complex discursive negotiations of meaning, and gendered processes of meaning-making, in some ways affirming mad women's lives and in others perpetuating negative stereotypes about women with mental illness and where they belong. Dans cet article, j'examine des narrations culturelles au sujet des vies et des espaces des femmes avec des maladies mentales dans le film commercial d'Hollywood: Une vie volée (Girl Interrupted, 1999). Contrairement à la majore partie de la littérature des études des handicaps concernés avec la représentation culturelle, cet article examine explicitement comment la spatialité des vies des 'femmes folles' sont construites au travers des films. En utilisant des perspectives poststructuralistes et féministes sur le handicap, et sur des idées conceptuelles qui viennent de la littérature limitée de la géographie sociale qui est concernée par les vies des gens avec des maladies mentales, j'explore les narrations culturelles et contradictoires au sujet des vies des gens avec des maladies mentales qui sont construites dans ce film. Cet approche reconnait que les représentations des 'femmes folles' et leurs positions dans la société et l'espace impliquent des relations contradictoires et lourdement tensionées entre spectateur et produit culturel, des négociations complexes et discursives de signification et des processus du sens sexualisés et la création de la signification sexualisé, des fois affirmant des vies des femmes folles et des fois perpétuant des stéréotypes négatifs sur les vies des femmes avec des maladies mentales et où elles s'intègrent. En este articulo, examino narrativas culturales sobre las vidas y lugares de mujeres con enfermedades mentales en la película comercial de Hollywood: Girl Interrupted (1999). En contraste con la mayoría de la literatura de estudios de discapacidad que se tratan a representación cultural, este articulo se examina explícitamente como la espacialidad de las vidas de 'mujeres locas' está construido por película. Hacer uso de perspectivas posestructuralistas y feministas de la discapacidad, y de ideas conceptuales de la literatura socio-geográfica limitada que se trata a las vidas de gente con enfermedades mentales, exploro la narrativas culturales contradictorias sobre las vidas y lugares de mujeres con enfermedades mentales construidos en esta película. Este enfoque se reconoce que las representaciones de 'mujeres locas' y sus lugares en sociedad y espacio se involucran relaciones contradictorias y tensas entre espectador y producto cultural, negociaciones discursivas y complejas de significado, y procesos engendrados de hacer significado, afirmando las vidas de las mujeres locas en algunas maneras y perpetuando estereotipas negativas sobre mujeres con enfermedades mentales y en donde se pertenecen en otras. Keywords: filmdisabilitymental illnesswomenrepresentationplaceKeywords: filmhandicapmaladie mentalefemmesreprésentationpositionKeywords: películadiscapacidadenfermedad mentalmujeresrepresentaciónlugar Acknowledgements Thanks to two anonymous referees for their helpful comments on previous drafts of this manuscript. Special thanks to the editor, Phil Hubbard, for his very helpful suggestions on revising an earlier draft of this article.
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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