CMNS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neurasthenia, Femininity, Gender Role
14 Aug 2016
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Body is a text of culture and a practical, direct locus of social control. Trivial routines, rules, and practices, culture is made body , converted into automatic, habitual activity. Docile body regulated by the norms of cultural life. Women are spending more time on the management and discipline of our bodies than we have in a long long time. Through these disciplines, we continue to memorize on our bodies the feel and conviction of lack, of insufficiency, or never being good enough. Our narcissistic and visually oriented culture, may function as a backlash phenomenon, reasserting existing gender configurations against any attempts to shift or transform power relations: news and magazines. Contemporary aesthetic ideal for women: obsessive pursuit has become the central torment of many women"s lives. Power as the network of practices, institutions, and technologies that sustain positions of dominance and subordination in a particular domain.
