KörperDifferenz: zur Dekonstruktion von Körper und Behinderung in biographischen Erzählungen von Frauen

"The article draws on the findings of one in February at the LMU-München near Prof.Dr. Heiner Keupp completed the dissertation project. Narrative-biographical interviews with women who are considered physically disabled are used as an empirical basis for tracing the social construction of body and disability in their dynamics and processiness. Bodies are inevitably seperated, socially classified, ethnically and culturally designed as well as subject to discourses of normality and aesthetics. Thus, different and different bodies are constantly produced and changed, which is reflected in social relations of power and dominance. Which social conditions of production are subject to the body called “disabled”? Our image of the body is strongly linked to ideas of growth and development, of becoming and passing, of change and movement. Furthermore, the idea dominates that the body is confronted with subjects that could make it its object of observation: bodies are exposed to the (own and foreign) gaze, they are in the limelight, they are perceived. We recognize the social influences and attacks on the body: not only do bodies change by themselves (i.e. internally, by their “natural” aging), they are changed, they are not only created, they are created and they are not only done away with, they are destroyed. Which texts write the body, what images design it, what are the processes of socialization and self-understandings regarding the body? Biographical research methods offer the possibility of making ambivalences visible in identification processes, tracing the re-territorializations and shifts of the intersection of class, gender, race and body about the narratives of the interviewees. Biographical narratives inform how and how body (self) images, disability (s) and gender relations establish, reproduce and change."(author’s abstract) "Der Beitrag fusst auf den Befunden eines im Februar an der LMU-München bei Prof.Dr. Heiner Keupp abgeschlossenen Dissertationsprojekts. Narrativ-biografische Interviews mit als körperbehindert geltenden Frauen werden als empirische Basis herangezogen, um die soziale Konstruktion von Körper und Behinderung in ihrer Dynamik und Prozesshaftigkeit nachzuzeichnen. Körper sind unweigerlich vergeschlechtlicht, sozial klassifiziert, ethnisch und kulturell entworfen sowie Normalitäts- und Ästhetikdiskursen unterworfen. So werden unterschiedliche und unterschiedene Körper laufend hervorgebracht und verändert, was sich in gesellschaftlichen