Foucault and the Disciplinary Society

Foucault and the Disciplinary Society

1. discursive power:

   • produces specific people with specific kinds of pleasures sexes
   • operates bottom up

2. important discourses related to gender:

   • the notion of males being masculine and females being feminine

3. recursive power

   • the power to punish etc.
   • we fear this power
   • operates top down

4. the disciplinary society

   • aims to produce perfect model citizens

5. the power of discourses surrounding gender

   • everyone is always gendered by the people around them
   • we are never not preforming/being gendered/gendering others