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Allison Schuette-Hoffman
Valparaiso University,
Nancy Bernardo
Department of Visual Communications, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Illinois Institute of Art–Chicago

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Through text and image, Schuette–Hoffman and Bernardo explore the ways in which we as individuals and as a society approach the body in order to organize experience. They take anatomy as a metaphor for this process and gender as its subject. By juxtaposing personal narrative with cultural analysis, they first argue that science has played a supporting role in the way patriarchy objectifies women before it turns and problematizes this very position. In the end, Schuette–Hoffman and Bernardo suggest neither patriarchy nor the practice of anatomy is a totalizing system. There are always fissures through which individuals can approach the body.

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Vol. 1 (2006)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Author Biographies

Allison Schuette-Hoffman, Valparaiso University,

allison schuette–hoffman, Department of English, Valparaiso University. The author may be reached at Valparaiso University, English Department, Huegli 222B, Valparaiso, in 46383 or Allison.Schuette-Hoffman@valpo.edu

Nancy Bernardo, Department of Visual Communications, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Illinois Institute of Art–Chicago

nancy a. bernardo, Department of Visual Communications, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The Illinois Institute of Art–Chicago. The designer may be reached at nberna@saic.edu.

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