This paper attempts to present a feminist critique of the social and political promotion in Western culture of a univocal model of female corporeity imposed on women, and consequently detrimental to female subjectivity and agency. Starting from the Foucauldian position concerning social oppression determined by the disciplinary gaze of power structures, the paper discusses perspectives of resistance to the patriarchally-motivated scrutiny of the female body, and to the mass-media induced coercion of conformity to the normatized model for the female body in contemporary society.
Ponterotto, D.m. (2016). Resisting the Male Gaze: Feminist Responses to the "Normatization" of the Female Body in Western Culture. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES, 17(1), 133-151.
Resisting the Male Gaze: Feminist Responses to the "Normatization" of the Female Body in Western Culture
PONTEROTTO, DIANE MARIA
2016-01-01
Abstract
This paper attempts to present a feminist critique of the social and political promotion in Western culture of a univocal model of female corporeity imposed on women, and consequently detrimental to female subjectivity and agency. Starting from the Foucauldian position concerning social oppression determined by the disciplinary gaze of power structures, the paper discusses perspectives of resistance to the patriarchally-motivated scrutiny of the female body, and to the mass-media induced coercion of conformity to the normatized model for the female body in contemporary society.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
