Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Online Dating Service, Plastic Surgery, Intersectionality
18 Dec 2017
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Foucault: a french theorist on power and knowledge. Power and knowledge operate through institutions for social control. Example: sex ed in school the knowledge we have about sex is used to control behaviours. Young women are scared into not having sex fear and shame based attitude towards sex. Historically women stay in the home, get married, and have children, in turn . Fathers, the husbands, enforced patriarchal authority in the family. Women were disciplined" their bodies and behaviours controlled by men and patriarchal institutions like the church. If you break a law (and are caught), you will e punished and go to jail. This rule is the same within prison walls: if you break a law or rule as an inmate, you will be punished. We need people representatives of the state 0 to engage in surveillance to. A prison set up as a circular structure with a tower in the center.
