In the context of a new wave of women’s activism for equality, the body is once again at the centre of the discussion today, in the USA and globally. Analysing American discourses about health and illness at the turn of the twenty-first century, Tasha Dubriwny has argued that the current narratives are dominated by neoliberal and postfeminist philosophies that have thrived in a framework of biomedicalisation and self-surveillance. What happens, then, when a successful feminist artist is diagnosed with uterine cancer? How does Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day, face the fact that her life may have a painful ending? How does a woman so aware of her physical and psychological self come to terms with illness? Is she willing to put her political project aside to become a patient? Through a close reading of Ensler’s uterine cancer memoir In the Body of the World, and focusing particularly on its structure and narrative strategies, this article situates her work within the corpus of female literature about health and illness in the twenty-first century, exploring her meaning-making process in the light of the current tensions between feminism and postfeminism.

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后千禧年癌症叙事：伊芙·恩斯勒 (Eve Ensler) 在世界的身体中的女权主义和后女权主义

在新一波妇女争取平等运动的背景下，身体再次成为当今美国和全球讨论的中心。在分析 21 世纪之交美国关于健康和疾病的话语时，塔莎·杜布里尼 (Tasha Dubriwny) 认为，当前的叙述由新自由主义和后女权主义哲学主导，这些哲学在生物医学化和自我监督的框架中蓬勃发展。那么，当一位成功的女权主义艺术家被诊断出患有子宫癌时会发生什么？《阴道独白》的作者和 V-Day 的创始人伊芙·恩斯勒 (Eve Ensler) 是如何做到的？面对这样一个事实，她的生命可能会有一个痛苦的结局？一个如此了解自己身体和心理自我的女性如何与疾病妥协？她愿意放弃她的政治计划而成为一名病人吗？通过仔细阅读恩斯勒的子宫癌回忆录在世界的身体中，并特别关注其结构和叙事策略，本文将她的作品置于 21 世纪关于健康和疾病的女性文学语料库中，探索她的作品鉴于当前女权主义和后女权主义之间的紧张关系，意义的形成过程。