...Ella Shohat Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 “Lasers for Ladies”: Endo Discourse and the Inscriptions of Science Ella Shohat Feminist theory has produced an impressive corpus of texts on the imaging of the female body in the arts, photography, cinema...

..., and, less often, camaraderie. Their two teenage children — daughter Joni (Mia Wasikowska), who is on the cusp of departing for college, and son Laser ( Josh Hutcherson), who is making his way through teenage masculinity — are the primary avenues through which the family’s outside and inside...

... The programs “run” on a desktop system consisting of a microcomputer (80486, 25 MHz) with 120 Mbyte hard disk, a laser videodisc player, 234 Figure 2. A user selection menu from Breast Cancer: Adjuvant Therapy, Dartmouth Interactive Media Laboratory’s...

... imaging research and in the development of mass screening programs. In “‘Lasers for Ladies’: Endo Discourse and the Inscription of Sci- ence,” Ella Shohat also takes up the ways in which disease is seen, defined, and managed through optical technologies. Her focus is endo...

... Satterfield, Ann D. Pages from Treatment. No. 29; pp. 215-223. Shohat, Ella “Laser for Ladies”: Endo Discourse and the Inscription of Science. No. 29; pp. 57-89. Solomon, Alisa The Politics of Breast Cancer. No. 28; pp. 157-177. Stabile...

... her attention were both the commentators’ inability to wit- ness death and destruction without the mediations of the war’s laser and video apparati, as well as what she calls “the gleam of the shield; that is, the facade of American militarism and what it revealed about the pathological...

.... Lacking any warning, scores of police- men are killed and the station destroyed. The film seems to suggest that if technology can go wrong or be abused, it will be. To illustrate this maxim further, Kyle Reese is shown having a nightmare of his future world where laser-armed, hunter-killer...

... mechanism that I was able to catch my error in diagnosis! At that point, I didn’t notice any dialogue between my technicians and yours, like, “There’s no need for a rotating-mirror, or a laser system. If you want to make such a thing, you have to study it first.” The image was dissatisfying...

... impressionistic quest is another video approach to the problem of light. In her early pieces she recorded the action of light (from lasers, the sun, and other sources) on the sensitive surface of electronic tubes, which were marred, even burned, and as a result, imprinted...

... used to chart and destroy vast territories in the Gulf War to the minute optical explorations of the body’s interior channels made possible through video endoscopy, a fiber optics process used both to image (on a video monitor) and to treat (with laser surgery) such conditions as endometriosis...

... spiritual in her love for the King. She told me of the time she went to Vegas in order to show her sister one particularly con- vincing impersonator. The show, she said, included laser beams, a smoke machine and a rising platform on the stage-all of which ap- parently created a sense...

... missiles.54 Like the threat of reverse colonization in vampire texts, AIDS research and Star Wars theory bespeak “political para- noia”: vampire narratives mobilize diagnostic discourses to “deal with the threat” of a foreign body, the vampire, while the lasers of Star Wars...

... and laser technologies, fetal imaging and reproductive politics, AIDS, breast cancer, cosmetic surgery, constructions of transgender bodies and identities, and health educational and activist video.18 And many contributors to the special issue “The Spectatrix” in 1989 had indicated their inter- est...

... third that confirms that the lesbian couple are already possibly irreparably out of sync with each other erotically, just as the chil- dren themselves are associated more with the breaking of attach- ments than the making of them: Laser breaks off with the best friend he has outgrown and Joni...

... using a state of the art medical laser system with the assistance of Dean Brannagan and Dr. AIf Linney from University College Hospital, London. 19. Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (London: Free Association Books, 1991) 149. 20. Haraway 150...