ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Panopticism, Panopticon, Bulimia Nervosa

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2170
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Sex, gender and the body: cross-cultural approaches to the body, gender, sexuality and kinship. Lecture 5 the disciplined body oct 05. Focus on production of particular types of bodies docile bodies: production he is interested in different sorts of identities are produced because bodies are shaped by cultures, they are not natural entities. To what extent are ideas of discipline applicable within non-western" contexts: different techniques of constructing the body into a docile body. Panopticism as a metaphor for one of the ways discipline works in modernity: constantly monitored and watched, and managing their space and time through the design and architecture of the panopticon. We naturalize discipline: we tend to not notice that we are disciplined. What are some ideals (normative ideas) of femininity within our society: nurtures, thin bodies, emotional, limited space (women are not supposed to take up that much space cross legs, etc. What about masculinity: aggressive, less emotional, athletic.