Embracing the Catastrophe: Gay Body Seeks Acceptance  

Oleh:

Berry, Keith

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Qualitative Inquiry vol. 13 no. 2 (Mar. 2007), page 259-281.
Topik: subjectivity; gay culture; bathhouse; performativity; narrative; aestheticized body; Butler; mindfulness; Boystown
Fulltext: 259.pdf (118.85KB)

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This article examines the constitution of gay male identity through embodied performances in Steamworks, a gay male bathhouse in Chicago. Motivated by Kabat-Zinn’s (1990) Buddhist conceptualizations of catastrophe and mindfulness, I reflectively track the ways in which desirability influences disconnection and identity negotiation as it occurs within a pervasive, generalized, and highly influential conceptualization of the idealized gay male body. Personal narratives scan experiences at Steamworks in which my body—less than the “ideal”—matters to me and to others culturally. I use Butler’s (1990) notion of performativity to propose stylized and normative ways in which subjectivity comes to be through uses of the body.

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