ABSTRACT
This chapter studies the discourse of gender in leucoderma narratives. In the select narratives on leucoderma, the condition of being sick and an imposed disability of the body negotiate with the cultural constructions of the female body. This has enabled one to analyse the female body as a pertinent cultural and political location of protest. It has offered various possibilities of emancipation, instead of a politics of romanticization or idealization of the female body. The select narratives exemplify that these sick and disabled bodies subvert the restrictions imposed on their bodies by capitalizing on that specific state of their bodies itself. These characters can charter such possibilities of the body and could subvert the stereotypes attached with their body images as their conditions are merely social and cultural constructions of stigma. This chapter proposes how a reversal of the politics of representation will negotiate with the normalization of standards and abilities. This form of protest and resistance can be a significant portal to deliberate on the biopolitical and biomedical metaphors embedded in these narratives.
