Shaping the Narrative

Performer and health educator Terri Kapsalis, who provides one of the most in-depth and critical account of Sims's work in her cultural study of the speculum, also dreams of difference for Anarcha and the others: she asks about their husbands, partners, children, loved ones, and about the space outside the hospital (1997, 40). This desire, to remember differently, also fuels the narrative I want to unfold: but the movement of my narrative becomes constrained and arrested every time I begin it, since the medical narrative surrounding Anarcha is so strong, the doctor's agency so well documented and remembered, and her agency only dreamed about.

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----- Petra Kuppers