Feminist Spaces Journal May Not: I

Volume 3, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2017 The views expressed in published submissions to Feminist Spaces do not reflect those views maintained by the University of West Florida. All rights to all files published within Feminist Spaces belong to the original respective authors. Unless specifically authorized by Feminist Spaces administration through written consent, persons using Feminist Spaces journal may not: i. post a copy of any article, file, or material from any edition of Feminist Spaces on a website (Internet or intranet); ii. alter any article, file, or material from any edition of Feminist Spaces; iii. charge for a copy (electronic or otherwise) of any article, file, or material from any edition of Feminist Spaces; or iv. systematically print, archive, or store entire issues or a significant number of articles from any issue. Cover Image, Dolor by Didi Hock 1 Feminist Spaces is an online, interdisciplinary academic journal that invites undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and independent scholars from institutions worldwide to submit formal essays as well as multimodal and artistic pieces per our biannual Call for Works. Established in March 2014, this journal is sponsored by members from the University of West Florida’s Women’s Studies Collective, a student-run organization invested in the vitality of Women’s Studies at UWF and the larger academic community. Editors-in-Chief Erica Miller Managing Editors Sydney Stone Jordan Thames Editorial Board Terry Griner Woodline Lauvince Samantha Nelson Shaundra Smith Hannah Trevino 2 Table of Contents 3.2, Spring/Summer 2017 Letter from the Editors ................................................................................ 4 Contributor Biographies ............................................................................. 5 Ambiguous Spaces, Nonbinarism, and “‘World’-Travelling” ............ 9 Jenna L. O'Connor “My G-spot is Not a Myth!”: Unpacking the (Controversial) Vaginal Orgasm Debate in Recent Medical Journals ........................................ 21 Diana Pearson Mad Marge Making Spectacular Spectacles of Spectacle .................. 34 Shawna Guenther Pain-Fear-Neglect-Repugnance ............................................................... 54 Didi Hock Dana Scully’s Empowerment as a Bio-Terrorism Survivor .............. 59 Natacha Guyot Who Deserves Protection? Understanding the Legal Silence on Intersex Surgery .......................................................................................... 66 Aisling Reidy Students, Teachers, Scholars, Storytellers: Exploring Embodiment through Social Constructs ....................................................................... 80 Darlene Johnston, Kristin LaFollette, and Stephen Ohene-Larbi Docile Cycles: Bleeding and the Embodiment of Oppression .......... 95 Katie Von Wald Venus of ___. 1 & 2 .................................................................................... 112 Samantha Earley The Ubiquity of Power: When Foucault Meets Feminism ............... 113 Felix Reich Curing Sexual Desire with the Lust Enhancing Pill for Women: Where Medicine Meets Normality ........................................................ 127 Maaike Hommes Subjectivity in Narrative Space: The Lack of Female Agency in Daniel Defoe’s Roxana ............................................................................. 147 Christopher Maye 3 Letter from the Editors Dear Readers, This issue of Feminist Spaces is the product of our third open call for works. Once again, we are both surprised and delighted by the diverse content of the submissions we have received. Through this call, we received vast array of works discussing relevant topics such as the ethics of intersex surgery, oppression through the objectification of menstruation as well as feminist readings of literature, film, and art. We are increasingly thankful for the overwhelming support we continue to receive, without which this journal would cease to grow and expand in the ways that it has. We extend sincere thanks to our contributors. Without your passion and hard work this journal would not be possible; our editorial board, whose work is crucial to the success of this project; and, of course, our readers, whose increasing curiosity and thirst for knowledge provide our endless motivation. As the area of women’s issues continues to expand, opposition and anti- feminist discourse grows as well. As a result, preserving the ability to have an open dialogue on these crucial and timely issues continues to be of paramount importance. It has always been the objective of Feminist Spaces to provide an outlet through which feminist voices can engage with, and embrace, one another in the hope that social change may strengthen and continue. We feel that this issue remains true to these goals, while embracing many distinct and controversial challenges that women continue to encounter and resist. We hope that you enjoy the works within this issue and find something that speaks to you. As always, we invite you to turn the page and explore what lies within and beyond these continually growing feminist spaces. Our very best, Erica Miller, Editor-in-Chief Sydney Stone, Managing Editor Jordan Thames, Managing Editor 4 Contributor Biographies Samantha Earley is a third-year undergraduate student at The University of West Florida. She is currently working on a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Studio Art. Her passion is in photography. She currently works in Pensacola and plans to move to Asheville, North Carolina, after graduating to continue her education in art and to open her own photography studio/gallery. Her goal is to make art accessible, whether it be owning, making, or learning. Shawna Guenther, B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., M.A., is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her dissertation examines early modern English medical representations of women’s breasts. She has published several academic articles and book chapters and has presented at many international conferences including the 2017 “Bowie’s Books” at the University of Northampton. She has served as the Secretary of the Graduate Students’ Caucus of ACCUTE and as Academic Vice-President of the Graduate Students’ Association (University of Regina). Under her pen name Jane Arsenault, she has published several creative non-fiction works about depression and motherhood. She is co-editor of Mothering Canada: Interdisciplinary Voices (Demeter, 2010). Natacha Guyot is a French scholar, author, and public speaker. Her academic background includes two master’s degrees, one from Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle in Film and Media Studies and one from King’s College London in Digital Culture and Technology. She currently studies for her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her main fields of research, which influence her fiction projects as well, are storytelling, science fiction, women, and spirituality. Didi Hock is how she called herself as a kid. She was born in Germany and has lived half of her life in Spain. She completed professional training in conceptual design, holds a B.A. in Sociology, an M.A. in Gender Studies, and diplomas in different fields of Photography. She has worked (and sometimes earned money) as a temp in construction, in offices and at fairs, as a telephone operator, a waitress, a shop assistant, a German and Spanish teacher, a photographer, an event manager, a social and visual educator, a counsellor, an independent researcher, a curator, a journalist, a translator, a self-publisher, a home-producer of ecological detergent, and as an artist. She refuses the idea of expertise and encourages experimentation. She was reborn in spirit in 2016 when she started to work in text and picture on her personal experience with chronic illness, pain, trauma, sexuality, memory, and auto-history. 5 Maaike Hommes is a graduate student at the University of Amsterdam, enrolled in a Research Master’s in Cultural Analysis. Holding undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and History, she switched to practice an object-centered approach to culture to address a Deleuzian ethics of complexity. In this pursuit, her research interests include the female sexual body, ethics of desire, relationality, and virtual space. Darlene Johnston is a Ph.D. student at Bowling Green State University. She has a master's in English and a master's in TESOL. Her research interests include the rhetoric of silence, feminist rhetoric, and the rhetoric of political protest. She has taught at the college level for fifteen years. She currently teaches Legal English to lawyers from Afghanistan working on their LL.M. in Democratic Governance and Rule of Law at Ohio Northern University. Kristin LaFollette is a Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric & Writing program at Bowling Green State University where she just completed a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English and creative writing from Indiana University (South Bend). Her interests include creative writing, queer and feminist theories, American Indian studies, and transgenre/digital composing. Christopher Maye graduated from California State University, Long Beach, with a Bachelor's in English Literature and a minor in music in 2015. His research interests include critical theory, gender studies, and political and ethnic literature, but he primarily focuses on 18th century English and 20th Century American literature. While he is currently pursuing an M.A. in English

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