Overturning feminist phenomenologies: disability, complex embodiment, intersectionality, and film
Bibliographic record
Abstract
1.\tThis book chapter poses a very substantial contribution to three interdisciplinary fields: feminist phenomenology, critical disability studies, and film studies, showing how an integrated understanding of all three can posit filmmaking as a site from which new feminist understandings of complex embodiment can emerge. Challenging standard feminist phenomenologies of situated embodiment, the chapter specifically invites these models to reconsider gender within the framework of intersectionality – incorporating the lived experience of bodies which are not only gendered, but also normatively labelled as ‘able’ or ‘disabled’, raced, and queer. The chapter accounts persuasively for the relevance of film to feminist phenomenologies, identifying how cinematic techniques can complexify standardised accounts of situated embodiment, reveal implicit ‘ableisms’, and shift an ethical perspective on the world from one of ‘independence’ to ‘interdependence’. The chapter concisely summarises the large volume of existing literature on disability and film, identifying the ableist tropes that are commonly held, but also equally overthrown , in film and the moving image. To demonstrate the case for intersectional, complex embodiment, the chapter employs a range of moving image works, including a sequence from the Canadian documentary EXAMINED LIFE (2008), where activist Sunaura Taylor and Judith Butler take a walk in San Francisco, a promotional video developed by South African disability activist and ambassador Eddi Ndopu to support the costs of his Master’s studies at Oxford University, and the French fiction film Read My Lips (dir. Jacques Audiard, 2000). The chapter is the culmination of a sustained engagement with feminist phenomenologies and film-phenomenology over a decade of the author’s scholarship. It also places an ethical demand upon feminist phenomenologies to acknowledge the very necessary intersections and interactions between disability gender, and race, as a condition of feminist phenomenology’s own critical engagement with the world.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".