SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Skin Whitening, Post-Structuralism, Gerontocracy
23 Feb 2016
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Relating to an ideal standard or model; often taken-for granted as the norm. Left handed - a lot of objects are made for right handed people. Auto calibration in cameras - darker faces can"t be seen. Air bags in cars - average male height in mind. Examples of bodily normativity build into design reflect status/reproduce inequalities. Geographically - cultures want different things in women, different aspects of beauty. Over time - fads change, body fads are no different. Governing ourselves: the conduct of conduct/care of the self. Enterprises that involve shaping one"s body to meet cultural expectations of beauty and health expectations of beauty and health. A metaphor used by donna haraway to describe entities that embody elements of both the living and the dead, human and non-human. Individual , social, theoretical and poststructuralist models - pros and cons. Prejudice and discrimination against people who have disabilities.
