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Possibilities for a Nondominated Female Subjectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Margaret Mclaren
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Abstract

This essay examines one of the contributions that Sandra Bartky makes to feminist theory. Bartky critiques Foucault for his gender blind treatment of the disciplines and social practices that create “docile bodies.” She introduces several gender specific disciplines and practices that illustrate that the production of bodies is itself gender coded. This essay argues that social practices are not monolithic, but are composed of various strands that may be in tension with one another.

Type
Symposium
Information
Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Winter 1993 , pp. 153 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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