Abstract
Abstract Amy Berkowitz’s Tender Points (2015) illustrates the potential of self-narrative to shape and be shaped by theory by approaching the body as the locus of critical thinking. Instead of following a linear narrative, this memoir presents a collage of autobiographical episodes where the personal is not only framed as political, but also as the source of theoretical knowledge. Berkowitz portrays chronic pain and trauma as mirror experiences and echoes of larger structures of oppression rooted in a tradition of the delegitimation of women’s voices reinforced by the culture of patriarchy and institutions of power. Tender Points is a feminist project aiming at contesting the facts and fictions that exist around the female body, pain, and language.
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