{"id":654,"date":"2020-04-05T02:49:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T02:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/?page_id=654"},"modified":"2020-04-05T02:49:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T02:49:39","slug":"future-research-interests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/feminist-perspectives-of-the-body\/future-research-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Future research interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/empowerment.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-655 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/empowerment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/empowerment.jpg 815w, https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/empowerment-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/empowerment-768x829.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a>The books and resources mentioned in this bibliographic essay clearly illustrate the plethora of scholarship on feminist theories of the body. Many of the works suggest that the female body has historically been under the control of men. As Adrienne Rich ([1976] 2015) stated, there is nothing unique about the fact that women\u2019s bodies are under the control of men. Whether it is in the arena of the sports, maternity or weight, women\u2019s bodies have been scrutinized, dissected, criticized and sexualized throughout history. Not only have women\u2019s bodies been the site of control, but the study of women\u2019s bodies in sports, fashion and the media have often been pushed to the margins because traditional scholarship has favored issues pertaining to men. As the field of women\u2019s bodies continues to expand, there remain many unexplored territories.\u00a0As Kimberl Crenshaw (1994) proposes, there is a need for more intersectionality in the scholarship. Crenshaw\u2019s explains intersectionality as \u201cnot really concerned with shallow questions of identity and representation but &#8230; more interested in the deep structural and systemic questions about discrimination and inequality.\u201d The scholarship on the female body has historically been focused on the white woman\u2019s experience. This field needs to move towards providing interdisciplinary perspectives of women\u2019s lived bodily experiences.\u00a0Within the groups of the \u2018oppressed\u2019 there are both the oppressed and oppressors that perpetuate the very system that they fight against. Scholars must acknowledge this privilege and explore how race, ethnicity, class and size come into play in regards to the female body. Future studies in these areas will be particularly enlightening for feminist theories of the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The books and resources mentioned in this bibliographic essay clearly illustrate the plethora of scholarship on feminist theories of the body. Many of the works suggest that the female body has historically been under the control of men. As Adrienne Rich ([1976] 2015) stated, there is nothing unique about the fact that women\u2019s bodies are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655,"parent":587,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-654","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654\/revisions\/656"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stacycacciatore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}