Amber Moffat Amber Moffat i(16660861 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Lines Amber Moffat , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Right Way Down and Other Poems 2024; (p. 116-117)
1 Sunday, 3pm Amber Moffat , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Right Way Down and Other Poems 2024; (p. 101)
1 Word Magic Amber Moffat , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Right Way Down and Other Poems 2024; (p. 49)
1 Breast Augmentation and Artificial Insemination: Monstrous Medicine and the Female Body in Recent Fiction Amber Moffat , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 11 no. 1-2 2022; (p. 163-177)

'Recent fiction that depicts medical intervention upon the female body as monstrous reveals societal anxiety around aesthetic and reproductive medicine. As biotechnology rapidly advances, the female body continues to be a site on which improvements, efficiencies and controls are imposed. While Kristeva’s abject and Creed’s ‘monstrous-feminine’ explain the capacity of the female body to imbue horror, this literary analysis explores how the experience of the medicalized female body can convey anxiety relating to escalating aesthetic and reproductive demands. Works of fiction by Kawakami, Mazza, Hortle, Booth, Giddings, Gildfind and Taylor are considered in terms of medicine and the female body, with the narratives revealing common themes of monstrosity. Bakhtin’s grotesque and Kristeva’s abject informs the analysis, as does Foucault’s concept of the ‘medical gaze’. Bartky’s ‘fashion-beauty complex’ frames the investigation into depictions of cosmetic surgery, while the impact of capitalism is considered in relation to reproductive technologies and medical experimentation. The power structures that medicine operates within are considered and the article argues that the representation of medicine as monstrous in relation to the female body expresses collective unease about the increasingly unstable boundaries of the human body itself.' (Publication abstract)

1 Blood Eagle Amber Moffat , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 66 no. 1 2021; (p. 163-170)
1 The Pool Amber Moffat , 2021 single work prose
— Appears in: Meniscus , June vol. 9 no. 1 2021; (p. 10-11)
1 The Debrider Amber Moffat , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , no. 240 2021;
1 y separately published work icon I Would Dangle the Moon Amber Moffat , Amber Moffat (illustrator), Adelaide : MidnightSun , 2019 16660883 2019 single work picture book children's

'What would you do if you could pluck the moon from the sky? Would you scoop it up in an ice cream cone, or ride it like a snail shell across the night sky? I Would Dangle the Moon is an imaginative and playful story about all the wonderful things a mother would do with the moon for her child if she could do anything in the world.

Lyrical and poetic, this unique and beautifully illustrated story evokes the love and warmth between a parent and child.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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