A "suitably dead" woman: Grieving Andrea Dworkin

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dc.contributor.authorPalmer-Mehta, Valerie
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-05T15:26:18Z
dc.date.available2017-09-05T15:26:18Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-14
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the discursive register through which lives become grievable by focusing on a case study of the discourses surrounding the death of radical feminist, Andrea Dworkin. I argue that Dworkin becomes embroiled in an interlocking nexus of illicit subject positions that set the terms of her grievability and obstruct recognition of her as a rational being by framing her (1) as the quintessential emotional and irrational woman who is not worthy of the respect typically offered to the dead and (2) in relation to her wild, unruly, and excessive body, which is conflated with her feral work.en_US
dc.identifier.citationValerie Palmer-Mehta (2016) A “suitably dead” woman: Grieving Andrea Dworkin, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 13:3, 287-304, DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2015.1119291en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10323/4579
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCommunication and Critical/Cultural Studiesen_US
dc.subjectDeath discoursesen_US
dc.subjectObituariesen_US
dc.subjectMemorialsen_US
dc.subjectGrievable livesen_US
dc.subjectEmotionsen_US
dc.subjectEmbodimenten_US
dc.subjectSecond-wave feministsen_US
dc.subjectFeminist rhetorical studiesen_US
dc.subjectAngry feministen_US
dc.titleA "suitably dead" woman: Grieving Andrea Dworkinen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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