The Rhetoric of Body Politics : Popular and Radical Imagination in Late Victorian Feminism and Literature

在这个研究项目中，我寻求在19世纪的性别政治的女性政治网络的配置，专注于约瑟芬巴特勒的政治著作，医学女性参与巴特勒的运动，以废除传染病法案，并在流行小说，如新女性小说的医生的代表性。巴特勒的作品将女性愤怒作为创作力量的主要来源和运动背后的动力，并暗示了她颠覆父权制对女性身体权威的渴望。事实上，医学界的先驱女性在许多方面回应了巴特勒的改革。特别是，伊丽莎白·布莱克威尔的作品对提高女性的强大声音以证明女性身体自决的重要性的根本转变做出了重大贡献，因为莎拉·格兰德的小说通过代表现代医学中对女性的精神和身体虐待提供了对性双重标准和身体政治的见解。更有趣的是，一些女医务人员还写了文学作品，在这些作品中，她们阐述了世纪末女性在私人和公共领域的新角色的重要性。我在2010年和2011年的国际会议上发表了关于医学女性的论文，我关于巴特勒的文章将发表在关于女性历史的跨学科学术期刊上。

In this research project, I sought the configuration of the female political network in nineteenth-century gender politics, focusing on the political writings of Josephine Butler, medical women's involvement in Butler's campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the representation of doctors in popular fiction such as New Woman novels. Butler's writing displays female rage as a primary source of creative power as well as the motivation behind the campaign, and implies her aspiration to subvert the patriarchal authority over women's bodies. In fact, pioneering medical women responded to Butler's crusade in many ways. Especially, Elizabeth Blackwell's writings made a significant contribution to the radical shift in raising the powerful voice of women to justify the importance of physical-self-determination for women, as Sarah Grand's novels offer insights about sexual double-standard and body politics by representing mental and physical abuse of women in modern medicine. More interestingly, some of medical women also wrote literary works in which they articulate the significance of new roles for women in both private and public domains at the fin de siecle. I presented papers on medical women in International conferences in 2010 and 2011, and my article on Butler will be published in an interdisciplinary academic journal on women's history(Routledge).