Creative/ Critical Research: the poem sequence ‘Phantom/ Sex Ontology’
Dr. Cath Nichols
Date: Wednesday 15 January 2014
Time: 2.15pm–3.45pm
Place: Eden 109, Liverpool Hope University, UK
This poem sequence contains semi-memoir poems but also metaphysical poems that explore proprioceptive feeling (i.e., phantom limb sensations and sensations of an absent sexed body) that question our understandings of sex/gender. The narrative thread of the sequence hinges around what was said to a child in the 1970s who asked a doctor about sex change interventions (from female to male). The doctor refused to help, saying it would be ‘like cutting off the legs of a cripple'. The response was, 'No, it would be like giving me wheels'. For Cath Nichols, the political stance of disability studies (as well as its position with regards to medical authority) makes more sense of transsexual embodiment than some feminist or queer theorists’ interpretations. Her research-as-writing-practice brings multiple strands of theory together as well as critiquing some extant literary works (Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Sharon Olds).
Cath Nichols is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Leeds. Her publications include Tales of Boy Nancy (2005), My Glamorous Assistant (2010), and Distance (2012).
This seminar is part of the new CCDS series, The Voice of Disability. Other dates include:
12th Feb, Oneself as Another: The Problem of ‘Voice’ in Alzheimer’s Life Writing, Lucy Burke.
12th Mar, Narrating Disability Inside and Outside the Clinic: Or, Beyond Empathy, Tom Couser.
21st May, The Reality and Rhetoric of Pupil Voice: Exploring the Educational Journeys of Young People Labelled with Behavioural, Emotional, and Social Difficulties, Marie Caslin.
25th Jun, Young DaDa: Evaluating Participation in the Arts, Claire Penketh.
For further information please contact:
Dr David Bolt
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