Challenging the domination of medical Gaze: A critical probing into charlotte Perkins Gilman’s the yellow wallpaper

Abstract

The study aims to look at Charlotte Perkins Gilmans short story The Yellow Wallpaper to critically probe into the practice of confining diseased body in the name of care and cure. In the process the space of the clinic plays an active role to identify, categorize and marginalize such bodies thereby denying autonomy. Using Foucaults idea of docile body and how the institution of medicine also actively participates to create such bodies, the paper critically examines the plight of a woman suffering from post-partum depression and also tries to read the politics behind incarcerating her body.