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Interrogate

Does "to interrogate" in the following two paragraphs from a same book mean "to question"?

Paragraph #1:As a visual artist, Kelly cautions against the representation of this excess, as it presents the woman in purely bodily terms, a tendency which can be dangerous given the propensity of female bodies to be subjected to the voyeuristic phallocentric gaze, as well as the conflation of femininity with hyperbolic bodily display in media and advertising. Kelly’s ‘scripto-visual’ method interrogates bodily presence. Although the hysterical body is invoked, nowhere in Interim is the body given.

Paragraph #2:

For the woman to accede to phallic power she can turn herself into the phallus, she can ‘be’ it, so that the heterosexual man can find the signifier of his desire in the body of the woman, and she gains pleasure from her ability to seduce. However, this economy excludes a position for the woman on her own terms, and while numerous women artists have attempted to interrogate fetishism in order to find a space for female subjectivity in its realm, Mulvey’s point about Sherman’s later works raises the difficulty of doing this without the risk of falling out of signification or being reduced to a bodily essence in abject fluids which in turn are re-fetishised.
  

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That "interrogate" is jargon. It is not the dictionary word. I don't know what it means unless it is simply a way of saying "examine".

  • That "interrogate" is jargon.
  • It is not the dictionary word.
  • I don't know what it means unless it is simply a way of saying "examine".
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That "interrogate" is jargon. It is not the dictionary word. I don't know what it means unless it is simply a way of saying "examine".

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