Of memory & furniture: poems in four parts and The flesh and the word: the modified female body

The poems in this collection are about the relationship between the female body and its experiences of being culturally silenced by childhood sexual abuse, mental illness and institutionalised maternity. They also articulate ways of writing resistance to that silencing through representing in poetr...

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Main Author: Bateman, Bronwyn Jane
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54052
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description The poems in this collection are about the relationship between the female body and its experiences of being culturally silenced by childhood sexual abuse, mental illness and institutionalised maternity. They also articulate ways of writing resistance to that silencing through representing in poetry lesbian embodiment, volitional markings such as tattooing, cutting and piercing, and temporary marking and constraint of the body through consensual D/s [Dominance and submission].
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-540522019-07-26T06:40:42Z Of memory & furniture: poems in four parts and The flesh and the word: the modified female body Bateman, Bronwyn Jane The poems in this collection are about the relationship between the female body and its experiences of being culturally silenced by childhood sexual abuse, mental illness and institutionalised maternity. They also articulate ways of writing resistance to that silencing through representing in poetry lesbian embodiment, volitional markings such as tattooing, cutting and piercing, and temporary marking and constraint of the body through consensual D/s [Dominance and submission]. 2011 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54052 Curtin University fulltext
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Of memory & furniture: poems in four parts and The flesh and the word: the modified female body
title Of memory & furniture: poems in four parts and The flesh and the word: the modified female body
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title_fullStr Of memory & furniture: poems in four parts and The flesh and the word: the modified female body
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title_short Of memory & furniture: poems in four parts and The flesh and the word: the modified female body
title_sort of memory & furniture: poems in four parts and the flesh and the word: the modified female body
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54052