@article{ref1,
title="Against abjection",
journal="Feminist theory",
year="2009",
author="Tyler, Imogen",
volume="10",
number="1",
pages="77-98",
abstract="This article is about the theoretical life of 'the abject'. It focuses on the ways in which Anglo-American and Australian feminist theoretical accounts of maternal bodies and identities have utilized Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection. Whilst the abject has proved a compelling and productive concept for feminist theory, this article cautions against the repetition of the maternal (as) abject within theoretical writing. It argues that employing a Kristevan abject paradigm risks reproducing, rather than challenging, histories of violent disgust towards maternal bodies. In place of the Kristevan model of the abject, it argues for a more thoroughly social and political account of abjection. This entails a critical shift from the current feminist theoretical preoccupation with the 'transgressive potentiality' of 'encounters with the abject' to a consideration of consequences of being abject within specific social and political locations.<p />",
language="",
issn="1464-7001",
doi="10.1177/1464700108100393",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700108100393"
}