Women's Studies 2220E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Neoconservatism, Domestic Violence, Heterosexuality

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2220E
• Professor: Erica Lawson

Document Summary

Biopower: can you explain how the author takes up the notion and how they are managed in the idea of biopower. Tool of neoliberalism if a good consumer can take care of itself self sufficient and able to take care of themselves. Specific things you need to engage in to become a good neoliberal subject. Such an emphasis on the self that social problems become individual problems critique then type of biopower in neoliberalism that if something happens to you then its your fault. More concerned about money to take care of yourself. Precisely why indigenous women and racialized women are governed differently need to be sheared to full adulthood. Neoliberal: engineers us to do certain things taking responsibility for ourselves and health scholars often talk about how. Applying notions of governmentality to makes sense of what has happened in women"s lives over the past 20 years or so. Articles: challenges post feminism - (which doesn"t actually exist).