“The discipline and normalization of the female body has to be acknowledged as an amazingly durable and flexible strategy of social control.”.“Through the exacting and normalizing disciplines of diet, makeup, and dress, women are rendered less socially oriented and more centripetally focused on self-modification.”.Female bodies forces and energies are habituated, to external regulation, subjection, transformation and “improvement.”.These means make our bodies trained, shaped, and impressed with prevailing historical forms of selfhood, desire, masculinity, femininity. Foucault: the primacy of practice over belief is not chiefly through ideology, but through the organization and regulation of the time, space and movements of our daily lives.Bourdieu: culture as a made body, can be converted into automatic, habitual activity.
An effective political discourse expected.According to Bourdieu and Foucault, it is a practical, direct locus of social control. The body is more than a text of culture.The concept of “body”– a medium of culture.Reconstructing Feminist Discourse on the Body With her central mechanism involving a transformation of meaning, Bordo intends to exemplify that various contemporary critical discourses can be joined and generate an understanding of the unwitting role which our bodies play in the symbolization and reproduction of gender.
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