Double-Edged Sword of Womanhood
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Regarding the deployment of sexuality, Foucault discusses four strategies that, beginning in the 18th century, were used to distinguish the working relationship of knowledge and power of sex. The very first, the “hysterization of women’s bodies”, focuses on the woman and how mentally and physically she became a symbol of the scientia sexualis of the […]
Double-Edged Sword of Womanhood
Tags: Childbirth, deployment of alliance, deployment of sexuality, family, gender roles, hysterization, Jeffrey Weeks, Keeping Fit To Fight, power, scientia sexualis, women
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