SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Michel Foucault, Contemporary Sociology, Biopower

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2101
• Professor: Louise Chartrand

Document Summary

The meaning and experience of illness: the body and pursuit of health. The contemporary (cid:494)rise of the body(cid:495) (cid:523)shilling, 200(cid:889):(cid:888)(cid:524: sex sells, scandal sells. Analysts of consumer culture consumers of health (3s) Second wave of feminism nothing natural about women(cid:495)s corporeality. These social and cultural developments and analytic concerns have done much to stimulate and maintain the rise of interest in the body since the. 1980s but they approached and defined the subject in very different ways. The body was a surface phenomenon, which had become a malleable marker. The body was changed into an uncertain and even rapidly disappearing of identity and status subject to the vagaries of fashion for theorists of consumer culture. We started to see the body as an object that was defined as either. It was a vehicle for the cultivation of particular types of lived experience and a more balanced and sustainable relationship with the external environment feminists.