Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Michel Foucault, Panopticon, Femininity

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Jen Chisholm

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Think about this in relation to patriarchy-it is an ideology we all work to maintain, versus a strict authority imposed by a patriarch . Take as examples: diet/exercise industry; public policing of women"s bodies; plastic surgery/cosmetic industry . 3 categories: aim to produce a body of a certain size and general con guration (15, diet/exercise industry, thinness is valued for women-diet and exercise is employed for the purpose of. !2: the powerful patriarchal ideologies that lie behind the idea are subtle, in large part because diet and exercise is framed as taking care of oneself or as an individual responsibility for health. Tuesday, november 4, 2014: offers huge economic bene ts: billion in the us alone. Speci c repertoire of gestures, postures and movements (15: public policing of women"s bodies, subtle functioning of power lies in both the fact that catcalling happens so frequently. And in the fact that women are told they should take it as a compliment.