Defacing Women: The Gendering of Disfigurement
Patricia Skinner
This chapter takes a gendered approach to disfigurement in terms of its disempowering function, but will then examine detail the minority documented cases disfigured women. How do these reports differ from those dealing with men? It becomes clear that woman’s face is deeply enmeshed her sexuality, and punishments targeted against women’s faces appear have been different meted out men. Throughout chapter, “gender” be understood as web power relations between not only men women, within each group. The disfigure woman signaled so much man’s authority over her, his position vis-a-vis other men, for whom control their households family was central own masculinity.
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