SOCB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Unintended Pregnancy, Fashion Accessory, Misophonia
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Where to draw the line between something that is irritating and something that might be a clinical condition that requires psychiatric (cognitive behaviour therapy for example) or medical intervention. An everyday irritation we put up with that is reconstructed into a medical frame. Notions and ideals of masculinity and femininity. How these two ideals are performed in terms of their appearance and classing themselves and their bodies. The traditional polarity between masculinity and femininity is being taken apart and how they"re being blend into one another under this experience of identity. Women and ideal notions of femininity and their bodies have been subject to extraordinary surveillance and medicalization. Article: differences between two generations of women in a community in england and how pregnancy is perceived. Women"s bodies have been, to some extent, public property and targets of public regulation. Women constructed as fetal persons or public carriers of fetuses. Example: people laying hand on pregnant woman"s stomach.