Rereading the Michel’s Foucault concept of discipline with a gender perspective
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disciplining, gender, feminism, body, capitalismAbstract
The historical commitment of feminism has been to reveal the inconsistencies, concealments and omissions within the categories and explanatory models that attempt to carry out social analyzes overlooking sex-gender and power inequalities. From the beginning, feminists encountered the difficulties of dealing with the androcentric bias of the sciences, with theories and concepts masked by objectivity, neutrality and truth. The complicity of science and the patriarchal regime have maintained close ties that feminists seek to break at all costs. Therefore, continuing with this task, in this essay I return to Michel Foucault’s concept of discipline, to carry out a re-reading under the feminist lens, with a gender perspective, based on the criticisms and positions of prominent feminists such as Elizabeth Grosz, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Janet Holland, Silvia Federici, Nancy Harstock, Nancy Frazer. This allows me to outline a historicization of the disciplining of the female body in the different phases of capitalism and, through this, make evident how a process of bodily control, dehumanization and historical subordination is forged.
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