CMN 3104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Binary Opposition, Femininity, Hymen
30 Mar 2017
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Social construction and connectedness of gender identities. Spatial praxis is based on hegemonic patriarchal gender ideologies. Practices of seclusion scrutinize men"s and (specially) women"s daily activities. This lead to gendered geographies and gendered communication beyond simple public/private divisions. Skin as fabric and fabric as an extension of skin: stitching the virginal identities and ideologies. Subjectification of female bodies as mending the dominant social fabric. Skin as an exchange value in pre-determined social relations. The idea of being virginal as a central point. The importance of the penetration into the hymen. Through foucault"s concept of subjectification: mechanisms of discipline and control exercised over a subject, either by external sources of power or by self-repression and self-discipline. Three processes: objectification, dividing mechanisms, own internalization of identities as objects of control that is transformed into self-control.
