WGS373H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michel Foucault, Biopower
20 Oct 2017
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Women born with vagina and subscribe to particular kind of femininity. The way we are gendered is socially constructed. When children are born is it a boy or a girl what color to associate to be clear, people are still regiment. Prescribe a certain way of living your life. Experience negative reaction when people express their comfort. Trans folks not gender conforming folks we see the struggle as they do not fit in a particular form. Started studying power as a discourse constituted within language and practices. 18th century-society from feudal to capitalist, clear class structures coming in. The wealthy, upper class and middle class, multiple classes. It was a time when we started seeing a lot of regulation and started seeing issues of sexuality. Sex itself is constituted, regulated by certain individuals and institutions. Who has done speaking how they have done it. Provide the priest control over your sexual behavior.
