SOCIOL 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sex Reassignment Surgery, Transdermal Implant, Primitive Markings
7 May 2019
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Allows inds to feel whole as part of a community/tribe. Desire to reinfuse body w significance and meaning. Diff way of knowing and being in the world by marking diff on body. Reaction against vicissitudes (changes) of mod life and soc. Response to dissolving sense of self due to superficiality of commercialized and commodified world. Body and body surfaces are sites of resistance. Inds have power and agency to change and control own bodies even if unable to change the world. Desire to reinfuse body w meaning and significance. Free selves from discontents of mod civilization: mpism result of soc changes brought on by globalization and alte capitalism. Adoption of primitive markings way to imagine a diff social order. Return to simpler life/world that is holistic, ethical, better: when inds knew who they were and where they belonged. According to giddens (1991) in late mod age. We have become responsible for the design of our own bodies".
