ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on disobedient bodies that unsettle normative imaginary, and reflects on their controversial position within the binary structure of the western logos. The monstrous body is something that has been present in literary and popular culture for centuries. The monster is a site of conflict, symbolism and morality. It produces assumptions which rely on contrapositions in the relationship it establishes with the world. Marginal spaces, minor spaces, are in the middle of movement. Their being marginal does not only mean marginalised, but it also means different. Frankenstein can be seen as a queer subjectivity, as the deconstruction of the body and the construction of the monster, an uncanny anticipation of transsexual surgery. There is another aspect of the Frankenstein-transsexual parallel which demands attention: it is the notion of the body as an inscriptive surface and the ways in which body image or bodily representations come into play in the construction of the sense of self.
