Re-visioning the Pregnant Body: Engaging with Elizabeth MacKenziefs Installation Radiant Monster

Authors

  • Susan Gingell University of Saskatchewan

Keywords:

Body image, Pregnancy, Medical Technology

Abstract

Radiant Monster, a multi-media work by Canadian artist Elizabeth MacKenzie, is situated within a larger Western feminist multi-disciplinary project of re-thinking the pregnant body. The installation's ambivalence about pregnancy is tied to the control patriarchy exercises over pregnant bodies, especially through verbal and visual representations, including those of medical technology.

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Published

1999-10-01

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 1 (1999)

Section

Community Voices

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