Constituting the Feminist Subject in Poststructuralist Discourse

Davies, Bronwyn; Browne, Jenny; Gannon, Susanne; Hopkins, Lekkie; McCann, Helen; Wihlborg, Monne

doi:10.1177/0959-353506060825

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“…Quelques jeunes femmes semblent, à certains moments, résister aux discours binaires de normalité/anormalité et « voir » la santé et le corps de manière différente : à l'intérieur, mais également à l'extérieur des représentations « normatives » du corps. Ce faisant, elles adoptent une position en tant que sujets que l'on pourrait qualifier de « poststructuraliste » (Davies et autres 2006) en ce qu'elles expriment une pensée critique par rapport aux discours médiatiques, médicaux et néolibéraux.…”

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« Voir » la santé autrement : les constructions discursives de la santé de jeunes femmes vivant en situation de handicap visuel

Pouliot¹,

Rail²

2013

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À partir d'une perspective poststructuraliste et féministe, les auteures explorent, dans le contexte du discours dominant de l'obésité, les constructions discursives de la santé de 20 jeunes femmes vivant en situation de handicap visuel. Dans un premier temps, elles utilisent l'écriture évocatrice afin de rapporter les résultats de l'analyse thématique. Cette dernière leur permet de mettre en scène deux résultats émergents: la santé est principalement construite en termes corporels et en tant que responsabilité individuelle liée à l'adoption de pratiques sanitaires. Dans un second temps, les récits des jeunes femmes sont examinés par l'entremise d'une analyse poststructuraliste du discours. À partir de celle-ci, les auteures notent les positions multiples et fluides que les jeunes femmes adoptent en tant que « sujets » : à certains moments en tant que sujets « néolibéraux », reproduisant sans les remettre en question les éléments de certains discours dominants de la santé et de l'obésité, mais à d'autres moments en tant que sujets « poststructuralistes », capables d'apporter un regard critique sur les discours dominants et ainsi de reconstruire la notion de santé autrement et de manière moins oppressive.Using a feminist poststructuralist approach, we explore the discursive constructions of health of 20 young women living with a visual impairment in the current context of a dominant obesity discourse. First, we use creative writing to report results from our thematic analysis. The latter allow us to highlight two emerging results: health is mostly constructed in bodily terms and as a matter of personal responsibility via the adoption of health practices. Second, a poststructuralist discourse analysis method is used to investigate the young women's narratives. As a result of this analysis, we note the multiple and fluid subject positions adopted by the young women: at times, as “neoliberal” subjects (re)producing elements of dominant health and obesity discourses and, at other times, as poststructuralist subjects critically gazing at dominant social discourses, offering some forms of “micro-resistance”, and discursively reconstituting health in a less oppressive way

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« Voir » la santé autrement : les constructions discursives de la santé de jeunes femmes vivant en situation de handicap visuel

Pouliot¹,

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2013

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“…Such approaches to health will only be partially successful as they do not substantially tap into the broader social landscape. Employing a critical health psychology approach enables this landscape to become visible and in doing so offers opportunities to work upon dominant ideologies in order to transform and reconstruct in less oppressive ways of working (Davies et al 2006, Weedon 1997). …”

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A Socially Situated Approach to Inform Ways to Improve Health and Wellbeing

Horrocks¹,

Johnson²

2014

From Health Behaviours to Health Practices

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Mainstream health psychology supports neoliberal notions of health promotion with self-management as central. The emphasis is on models that explain behaviour as individually driven and cognitively motivated with health beliefs framed as the favoured mechanisms to target in order to bring about change to improve health.Utilising understandings exemplified in critical health psychology, we take a more socially situated approach focusing on practicing health, the rhetoric of 'modernisation' in UK healthcare and moves toward democratisation. While recognising that within these new ways of working there are opportunities for empowerment, and user-led healthcare, other implications become evident. Explored is how these changes link into simplistic, cognitive behavioural ideologies of health promotion and rational decision-making. Utilising two different empirical studies, this paper highlights how self-management and expected compliance with governmental authority in relation to health practices position not only communities who experience multiple disadvantage but also more seemingly privileged social actors. Presented is a challenge to self-management and informed choice, with the importance of 'navigational networks' evident. The ways in which healthcare can become remote and inaccessible to certain sections of the community, yet pervasive and deterministic for others, conveys the need for multiple levels of analysis and different forms of action.2

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“…While the limits of space preclude a deeper examination, we would like to gesture to some of the ongoing debates that have informed our conceptual work. These include feminist poststructuralist deconstruction of the male/female binary (Davies et al, 2006); queer scholarship regarding the politics of normalization, particularly hetero-and (trans)gender normativities (Bornstein, 1995;Nicolazzo, 2016;Roen, 2002); and transgender studies debates about the social consequences of gender variance including high burdens in education (Toomey, McGuire & Russell, 2012) and health (Reisner et. al, 2016).…”

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