THEA 3235 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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Normative control reflected in the way the body performs. Our bodies are a site for social inscription. Certain ideas and identities are brought about. The inscriptions on social bodies can be reversed and rewritten. Reversal of norms by the rewriting of the body. Reclaiming the body (self-intervention): radical body modification, the shaping of your face and body. We can say that these ideas of reclaiming the body through self-intervention can restore a sense of personal control by a body that has been normalized by dominant ideologies. Cosmetic surgery can be seen as normalizing the female body: prevent and correct the body from looking old, etc, plastic surgery is a normalizing tool which allows people to conform to standards of beauty. He critiques and subverts these standards of beauty through constructive surgery. Subverts western standards of beauty and social control. Her surgeries are recorded into archives and then showed to the public. She destabilizes cultural norms of beauty and suffering.