Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dieting, Femininity, Jeremy Bentham
11 Sep 2018
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Power and knowledge operate through institutions for social control. I. e. sex ed in schools: the knowledge we have about sex (its dangerous) is used to control behaviour (so don"t have sex) What are the sources of power that work to discipline women: discourses of fear (sex ed, historically: patriarchal authority, the church (p. 41, the state. Contemporarily: women are disciplined by the state. Circular structure: a tower in the centre, cells in the outer ring with inmates (27) All inmates are constantly visible to one supervisor in the tower and the supervisor is not visible to the inmates. Results in self-surveillance and a docile body. There are disciplinary practices that produce a body which in gesture and appearance is recognizably feminine (bartky 41) Normative femininity is coming more and more to be centred on woman"s body its sexuality, more precisely, its presumed heterosexuality and its appearance (bartky 41) size, movement, appearance.
