Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
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Exploring Body Politics and Cultural Studies
This chapter investigates the motivations for researching cultural studies, particularly around self-production and body politics, while navigating skepticism from academia. The speaker emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach, integrating gender, media, and disability studies, to enrich the educational experience, especially in liberal arts settings. They also discuss the societal pressures of normalcy on women's labor, using examples from popular culture to illustrate the evolution of these themes in contemporary discourse.
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