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An Economy of Illness: The Poetics of Women in Pain
Literature and Medicine Pub Date : 2018-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/lm.2018.0007
Sarah Nance

Abstract:This essay examines the position of illness within a capitalist economy, exploring how labor, production, and consumption change through the bodily experiences of illness. Using contemporary poetry by Elizabeth Arnold and Anne Boyer, I suggest first that the experience of illness places women in an alternative economy, not unlike the familiar ways in which women are routinely devalued when their labor is under-appreciated or under(/un)compensated. I argue that being ill often challenges the productivity required by capitalism, and that as a response, experiences of illness play a role in the formation of an alternative economy. Within these new economic structures, affective experiences of pain and disgust—typically devalued in a capitalist economy—become foundational features of taste formation. The poets I examine here explore this complicated affect to suggest that experiences of pain can have important economic and affective effects.

中文翻译:

疾病经济学:痛苦中的女性诗学

摘要:本文考察了疾病在资本主义经济中的地位,探讨了劳动、生产和消费如何通过疾病的身体体验而发生变化。使用伊丽莎白·阿诺德和安妮·博耶的当代诗歌,我首先建议,疾病的经历将女性置于另类经济中,这与女性在劳动被低估或(/未)补偿时经常贬值的熟悉方式不同. 我认为生病往往会挑战资本主义所需的生产力,作为一种回应,疾病的经历在另类经济的形成中发挥着作用。在这些新的经济结构中,痛苦和厌恶的情感体验——通常在资本主义经济中贬值——成为品味形成的基本特征。
更新日期:2018-01-01
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