The body as experience
 

Duden 23: "Kniebiehler and Fouquet's work on women and medicine, a study covering two thousand years, [...] starts from the premise that there is such a thing as 'solid knowledge' about the body, [but] goes on to note that this growth of 'rational knowledge' has fone on for too long with male 'ideology mixed in.' If only science could finally be cleansed of these 'irrational' elements, the uncovered essensce of the biological entity 'woman' could at last emerge"
 
Duden notes however that all studies attempting to "uncover reality-defining characteristics as expressed in the body," including Kniebiehler and Fouquet [I think?], "fail to address the body as experience"

> from Barbara Duden's The Women Beneath the Skin A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1998)

> tagged with #body, #women, #experience, #ideology, #knowledge

> created March 30, 2026 at 10:13:05 AM


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