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Becoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search for identity in an image-oriented world. That search is told through the experiences of a group of women who came of age in the wake of second and third wave feminism, featuring voices from marginalized and misrepresented groups

In a culture where beauty is currency, women's bodies are often perceived as measures of value and worth. The search for visibility and self-acceptance can be daunting, especially for those on the cultural margins of "beauty."Becoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search for identity in an image-oriented world. That search is told through the experiences of a group of women who came of age in the wake of second and third wave feminism, featuring voices from marginalized and misrepresented groups. Carla Rice pairs popular imagery with personal narratives to expose the "culture of contradiction" where increases in individual body acceptance have been matched by even more restrictive feminine image ideals and norms. With insider insights from the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, Rice exposes the beauty industry's colonization of women's bodies, and examines why "the beauty myth" has yet to be resolved

Rice, C. (with the support of Harrison, E. & LaMarre, A.) (2018). Report on the Social Impacts of Disruptive Technologies for People with Episodic and Persistent Disabilities. Submitted to the Plans and Consultations, Privy Council Office. Ottawa: Government of Canada. ; SSHRC Partnership Grant, SSHRC Insight Grant

This article engages with recent critical research on the obesity epidemic to think through the bioethics of current obesity prevention and consider alternative responses to fat bodies. To develop such an approach, it offers a feminist "body becoming" theory of fat that interweaves constructivist and new materialist theories with embodied and aesthetic perspectives to imagine other possibilities for fat embodiment. Thinking beyond conventional biopedagogical interventions that send moralizing messages about what bodies should be, I theorize a "becoming" pedagogy that moves away from enforcing norms toward more creative ways of expanding possibilities for what bodies could become. Because in our boundary-setting world this kind of imagining is considered the work of the artist and not within the purview of the social scientist, I turn to the arts and to aesthetic theory for insight and inspiration in this project. I discuss representations that focus on embodying and materializing change among individuals and groups so as to transform social scripts about body, ability, and normality.

Feminists influenced by post-conventional and critical perspectives confront a significant challenge when researching women's embodiments: the dilemma of representation. For researchers from positions of bodily privilege, issues of interpretation intensify when researching and writing across physical differences distorted by colonial and other hegemonic histories and legacies. In this article, I draw from interviews with diversely embodied women to discuss difficulties encountered in interpreting their narratives of embodiment. I reflect on strategies of embodied engagement, including de-centring my bodily self, re-visiting my body story, and imagining the other's embodied experiences in the creation of provisional meanings about participants' bodies and lives. To shed light on risks and rewards of researcher-embodied reflexivity to study sensitive subjects such as appearance and difference, I show how analysing my `body secrets' invites deeper exploration into dynamics of bodily privilege and abjection underpinning women's accounts. I conclude by questioning the ethics of my `imaginative leap' into other/ed women's lives and by considering more broadly the perils and possibilities of traversing the space between self and other, and other in the self, within feminist research.

Front cover -- Half-title page -- Artist's statement -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 -- Part 1A -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 1 -- CHAPTER 3 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 2 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- Part 1B -- CHAPTER 6 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 4 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 5 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 6 -- CHAPTER 9 -- Part 1C -- CHAPTER 10 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 7 -- CHAPTER 11 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 8 -- PART 2 -- Part 2A -- CHAPTER 12 -- ACTIVIST ART 1 -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 9 -- CHAPTER 15 -- Part 2B -- CHAPTER 16 -- CHAPTER 17 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 10 -- ACTIVIST ART 2 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 11 -- CHAPTER 18 -- ACTIVIST ART 3 -- Part 2C -- CHAPTER 19 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 12 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 13 -- CHAPTER 20 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 14 -- CHAPTER 21 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 15 -- CHAPTER 22 -- Part 2D -- CHAPTER 23 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 16 -- CHAPTER 24 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 17 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 18 -- CHAPTER 25 -- CHAPTER 26 -- PART 3 -- Part 3A -- CHAPTER 27 -- CHAPTER 28 -- ACTIVIST ART 4 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 19 -- CHAPTER 29 -- CHAPTER 30 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 20 -- Part 3B -- CHAPTER 31 -- ACTIVIST ART 5 -- CHAPTER 32 -- CHAPTER 33 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 21 -- ACTIVIST ART 6 -- CHAPTER 34 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 22 -- ACTIVIST ART 7 -- Part 3C -- CHAPTER 35 -- CHAPTER 36 -- CHAPTER 37 -- CHAPTER 38 -- CHAPTER 39 -- CHAPTER 40 -- PART 4 -- Part 4A -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 23 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 24 -- SNAPSHOTS & -- SOUNDWAVES 25 -- CHAPTER 41.

In this paper, we explore the affective-discursive-material aspects of the supportive eating disorder recovery assemblage. We approach recovery as an "assemblage" to facilitate an understanding of how human (people, systems of care, etc.) and nonhuman (affect, discourses, etc.) forces generate possibilities or impossibilities for recovery. Moving away from framings of recovery as an individual achievement, we consider the relationality and dynamism of eating disorder recovery in interviews with 20 people in recovery and 14 supporters of people in recovery. We draw from experiential accounts to theorize a supportive eating disorder recovery assemblage in relation to trust and love mobilized in interactions and relationships. This supportive eating disorder recovery assemblage can scaffold new understandings of recoveries as multiple and co-produced. Supportive eating disorder recovery assemblages generate improvisational spaces, albeit loosely contained and bounded, for different pathways to and manifestations of "recoveries". This work builds on a body of feminist scholarship on eating disorders/disordered eating that takes up gendered relationships of power in treatment settings, extending toward and analysing material, affective, embodied, and potentially affirming dimensions of care and emotion in participants' lives.

In this article, the authors examine the impact of using their evolving multimedia storytelling method (digital art and video) to challenge dominant representations of non-normative bodies and foster more inclusive spaces. Drawing on their collaborative work with disability and non-normatively embodied artists and communities, they investigate the challenges of negotiating what 'access' and 'inclusion' mean beyond the individualizing discourses of neoliberalism without erasing the specificities of differentially-lived experiences. Reflecting on their experiences in a variety of workshops and on a selection of videos made in those workshops, they identify and analyze three iterative 'movements' that mark their storytelling processes: from failure to vulnerability, from time to temporality, and from individual voice to collective concerns. The authors end by considering some of the ways they have experimented with developing an iterative workshop method that welcomes difference while simultaneously allowing for an examination of the terms of the shared space and of the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion operating within that space.

AbstractIn this essay, we discuss multimedia story‐making methodologies developed through Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice that investigates the power of the arts, especially story, to positively influence decision makers in diverse sectors. Our story‐making methodology brings together majority and minoritized creators to represent previously unattended experiences (e.g., around mind‐body differences, queer sexuality, urban Indigenous identity, and Inuit cultural voice) with an aim to building understanding and shifting policies/practices that create barriers to social inclusion and justice. We analyze our ongoing efforts to rework our storytelling methodology, spotlighting acts of revising carried out by facilitators and researchers as they/we redefine methodological terms for each storytelling context, by researcher‐storytellers as they/we rework material from our lives, and by receivers of the stories as we revise our assumptions about particular embodied histories and how they are defined within dominant cultural narratives and institutional structures. This methodology, we argue, contributes to the existing qualitative lexicon by providing innovative new approaches not only for chronicling marginalized/misrepresented experiences and critically researching selves, but also for scaffolding intersectional alliances and for imagining more just futures.

People who have experienced eating disorders are making sense of and managing their own health and recoveries, in part by engaging with digital technologies. We analyzed 1056 images related to eating disorder recovery posted to Instagram using the hashtags #EDRecovery, #EatingDisorderRecovery, #AnorexiaRecovery, #BulimiaRecovery and #RecoveryWarrior to explore user performances of eating disorder recovery. We situated our analysis in a critical Deleuzian feminist frame, seeking to understand better how users represented, negotiated, or contested dominant constructions of "how to be recovered". We identified a number of themes: A Feast for the Eyes, Bodies of Proof, Quotable, and (Im)Perfection. Within each of these themes, we observed links to social location, including the White, Western, middle-to-upper-class trappings that tether representations of eating disorder recovery to stereotypes about who gets eating disorders and may restrict access to the category of recovered. Documenting recovery online may be a way for those in recovery to chart progress and interact with similar others. However, recoveries presented on Instagram resemble stereotypical perspectives on who gets eating disorders and, thus, who might recover, subtly reinforcing a dominant recovery biopedagogy. These versions of recovery may not be available to all, limiting the possibility of engagement for people enacting and embodying diverse recoveries. Still, users make representational interventions into Instagram by making the struggles and challenges of eating disorder recovery visible to each other and to broader audiences.

Digital storytelling is as an arts-based research method that offers researchers an opportunity to engage deeply with participants, speak back to dominant discourses, and re-imagine bodily possibilities. In this article, we describe the process of developing a research-based digital storytelling curriculum exploring eating disorder recovery. We have built this curriculum around research interviews with young women in recovery as well as research and popular literature on eating disorder recovery. Here, we highlight how the curriculum acted as a scaffolding device for the participants' artistic creation around their lived experiences of recovery. The participants' stories crystallize what resonated for them in the workshop process: they each have an open-ended narrative arc, emphasize the intercorporeality of recovery, and focus on recovery as process. The nuances within each story reveal unique embodied experiences that contextualize their recoveries. Using the example of eating disorder recovery, we offer an illustration of the possibilities of digital storytelling as a critical arts-based research method and what we gain from doing research differently in terms of participant-researcher relationships and the value of the arts in disrupting dominant discourses. (author's abstract)

"Rethinking Artful Politics: Bodies of Difference Remaking Body Worlds" is a robust Special Issue comprising 11 scholarly articles on the nexus of art and politics [...]