Article ID: CBB399467545

Recomposing the Slut: Feminist Taxidermic Practice in Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things (2019)

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In her novel The Natural Way of Things (2016), Charlotte Wood investigates how taxidermic tactics participate in creating contemporary Australian gender relations. She documents how women who resist patriarchal ordering are assigned the status of taxidermic animal-objects as they are composed as sluts. Rather than simply critiquing the objectification of women or seeking to restore women marked as deviant to human status, Wood utilizes the position of the animal-object to challenge patriarchal constructions of the human and to illuminate the insights that become available from positions other than the human, signaling possibilities for feminist taxidermic practice.

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Authors & Contributors
Berkhout, Suze G.
Jylkka, Katja
Anne Milne
Phillips, Philip E.
Simons, Oliver
Shaw, Lytle
Concepts
Literary analysis
Science and literature
Gender
Feminist analysis
Women
Teaching; pedagogy
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
Modern
Medieval
20th century
Places
United States
Europe
Australia
Ireland
Great Britain
Institutions
Australian Museum
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