ANT356H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Hijab
28 Feb 2014
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In the texts: women"s perspectives, practices, and agency, different models and ideals of femininity, focus on societal gender norms, the significance of the body. Women make themselves subjects by working on and acting their bodies; making their bodies the agent of transformation of both themselves and the society in which they live. Agreed with foucaultian perspective on productivity of power. Relations of power also processes of subjectification; dominated by certain authorities but also subject yourself to them. What you do to your body, as well as what your body does to you. Mahmood on veiling: one veils not to express an identity but as a necessary, if insufficient, condition for attaining the goal internal to that practice, namely the creation of a shy and modest self. The veil in this sense is the means of both being and becoming . Agency in the context of religion: predestination vs.
