control of one's own body, it is possible to exert control over another's body. According to Michel Foucault (1977) , bodies are made to operate in response to signals that stem from systems of relationships that maintain order. From this perspective
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The Cum Shot (Re)Interpreted in Terms of Contamination and Control
James K. Beggan
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 13–32 (20 total)
“The Rain It Takes to Learn the Limits of the Self”
Wetness, Masculinity, and Neoliberal Erotics in Andrew McMillan's Playtime
Nicholas Hauck
correspond and reply to the following three premises, which are inspired by Michel Foucault's work on neoliberal economies of the body and pleasure, and by contemporary discourse influenced by his work: (1) Neoliberalism shifts and intensifies the
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 68–81 (14 total)
“Exfoliation, Cheese Courses, Emotional Honesty, and Paxil”
Masculinity, Neoliberalism, and Postfeminism in the US Hangout Sitcom
Greg Wolfman
Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in Conversation .” Feminist Theory 21 ( 1 ): 3 – 24 . doi: 10.1177/1464700119842555 . 10.1177/1464700119842555 Bartky , Sandra Lee . 1998 . “ Foucault, Feminization and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 57–81 (25 total)
Boys, Bullying and Biopedagogies in Physical Education
Michael Atkinson and Michael Kehler
There has been a dramatic rise in public, and particularly the media, attention directed at concerns regarding childhood obesity, and body shape/contents/images more broadly. Yet amidst the torrential call for increased attention on so-called “body epidemics” amongst youth in Canada and elsewhere, links between youth masculinities and bodily health (or simply, appearance) are largely unquestioned. Whilst there is a well-established literature on the relationship between, for example, body image and marginalized femininities, qualitative studies regarding boys and their body images (and how they are influenced within school settings) remain few and far between. In this paper, we offer insight into the dangerous and unsettled spaces of high school locker-rooms and other “gym zones” as contexts in which particular boys face ritual (and indeed, systematic) bullying and humiliation because their bodies (and their male selves) simply do not “measure up.” We draw on education, masculinities, health, and the sociology of bodies literature to examine how masculinity is policed by boys within gym settings as part of formal/informal institutional regimes of biopedagogy. Here, Foucault’s (1967) notion of heterotopia is drawn heavily upon in order to contextualize physical education class as a negotiated and resisted liminal zone for young boys on the fringes of accepted masculinities in school spaces.
In Boyhood Studies
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- 01 Sep 2012
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- Research Article
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- 166–185 (19 total)
“Undoing” Gender
Nexus of Complicity and Acts of Subversion in The Piano Teacher and Black Swan
Neha Arora and Stephan Resch
Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001) and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) are films about women directed by men. Both films unorthodoxly chart women artists’ struggle with the discipline imposed on them by the arts and by their live-in mothers. By portraying mothers as their daughters’ oppressors, both films disturb the naïve “women = victims and men = perpetrators” binary. Simultaneously, they deploy audiovisual violence to exhibit the violence of society’s gender and sexuality policy norms and use gender-coded romance narratives to subvert the same gender codes from within this gender discourse. Using Judith Butler’s and Michael Foucault’s theories, we argue that Haneke and Aronofsky “do” feminism unconventionally by exposing the nexus of women’s complicity with omnipresent societal power structures that safeguard gender norms. These films showcase women concurrently as victim-products and complicit partisans of socially constructed gender ideology to emphasize that this ideology can be destabilized only when women “do” their gender and sexuality differently through acts of subversion.
“Look at Me! I Can Change Your Tire”
Queer Female Masculinity in the Gym
Kristine Newhall
Michel Foucault's technologies of power and technologies of the self. Thus, in this project I examine the dialectical construction of Western gym space and the enactment of gender and sexuality within this space. Carrie's story is bounded by space; by
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 39–56 (18 total)
“I Am Trying” to Perform Like an Ideal Boy
The Construction of Boyhood through Corporal Punishment and Educational Discipline in Taare Zameen Par
Natasha Anand
Discipline and Punish ([1975] 1995)—the text that influences my entire discussion—Michel Foucault gives the classroom weight equal to the jail house or the factory as evidence for a panoptic discipline that pins the subject within its gaze. In such a gaze
In Boyhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–104 (27 total)
Embracing a New Day
Exploring the Connections of Culture, Masculinities, Bodies, and Health for Gay Men through Photovoice
Phillip Joy, Matthew Numer, Sara F. L. Kirk, and Megan Aston
not stable or representative of one meaning ( Aston 2016 ; Foucault 1972 ; Grant and Giddings 2002 ; Perron and Holmes 2011 ; Rose 2012 ; Weedon 1987 ). Discourse goes beyond language to represent the interconnected systems of social meanings and
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 10–38 (29 total)
Pain and the Cinesthetic Subject in Black Swan
Steen Ledet Christiansen
problematic to separate the two bodies; our lived experience of being-in-the-world is always shaped by Foucauldian biopower. Foucault defines biopower as the “numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugation of bodies” (2012: 140). These
“Boys in Power”
Consent and Gendered Power Dynamics in Sex
Katrín Ólafsdottir and Jón Ingvar Kjaran
draws our attention to patriarchy 4 and the underlying gendered power imbalances at work and uses it as a theoretical lens through which to view society ( Hesse-Biber [2006] 2014 ). We also draw on Michel Foucault's writings on subjectification