Sökning: "foucault docile bodies"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden foucault docile bodies.

1. 1. Presentations of Femininity in Patrick Marber's Closer

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Anna Olsson; [2014-02-07]
   Nyckelord :engelska; Closer; Patrick Marber; British theatre; Michel Foucault; gender; representations of femininity;

   Sammanfattning : This essay explores the presentation of femininity in Patrick Marber's play Closer from perspectives borrowed from Michel Foucault and feminists inspired by post-structuralism and social constructivism. Foucault describes how self-policing subjects, or docile bodies, are created through the internalisation of dominant discourses in the performances of every-day life under the disciplinary powers of regulation, surveillance and classification. LÄS MER

3. 2. Exersizing agency : feminism and aerobics

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Thora Thorsteinsdottir; [2004]
   Nyckelord :feminism; feministisk teori; sport; kroppen; Gender studies; Genusvetenskap; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Feminist debate on aerobics mainly focuses on the disciplining discourses that women face, to be thin, fit and beautiful. Although it is important to examine these discourses I argue that the discussion has taken a wrong turn in putting such emphasis on the disciplining pressures. LÄS MER