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there are also some issues here in relation to modes of representation i.e. pain is linked to the demand for testimony, which is also a feminist thematic, and the work that feminist theory can do. Questions of pain are then linked to 'gender' more specifically given the social production of sexual difference through the asymmetrical experience of pain. pain is understood as that which is not represented/representable (Elaine Scarry), hence questions of pain are allied to those of the 'feminine' or patriarchal gender representation more broadly. Feeling Knowing Pain, Language and the Body - a sort of case study of 'pain' as a feminist theory of feeling. draw on Grosz, Kirby and others to show the limits of Butler's framework particularly in this regard.

Something like, feminism needs to be more ontological in its politics, and this is what the question of 'feeling' theorised from the vantage point of feminist theory raises. Ontologising Epistemology - discussion of how Probyn's description of experience as primarily ontological opens up ways to critically think about feeling - this approach captures the role of the ontological dimension in what makes experience meaningful.

part of the problematic is 'objectivity' linked to Western subjectivity - Haraway's partial perspective offers more possibility for theorising feeling that Butler/Scott's 'discursive' approach. Experiencing Feeling, Knowing Experience - discussion of Scott's critique of 'experience' and how this creates obstacles to thinking about feeling from a feminist theoretical perspective. within the feminist literature, the discussion on 'pain' and 'shame' stand out as feminist theories that avow feeling as a kind of 'embodied knowledge' shame and pain are linked to feminist critiques of subjectification (gender as a 'truth effect' of knowledge/power). Introduction - reflections on feeling and the mind/body distinction, with which we're now overly familiar. This is student work that may be of interest to students working on these topics. It reflects the kinds of feminist theory that were considered de rigueur at the time. This is an enquiry into how feminist theory theorised feeling.

Chandra talpade mohanty feminism without borders decolonizing theory practicing solidarity