Foucault, Femininity and Patriarchal Power

Question 1

offered a powerful and sophisticated internalized coercion, which was achieved through the constant observation of prisoners, each separated from the other, allowing no interaction, no communication

Answer 1

Panopticon

Question 2

A system of power that is
non-egalitarian and
asymmetrical

Answer 2

Microphysics of power

Question 3

There is a primacy of practice over belief is not chiefly those
ideology, but through organization and regulation of time, space,
and movements of our daily lives. These means make our bodies
trained, shaped, and “improved” with prevailing historical
selfhood, forms of desires, masculinity and femininity.

Answer 3

Body as medium of culture

Question 4

Modes of perceptions and self-perceptions which allow a self
to distinguish itself both from other selves and from which
things are not selves

Answer 4

Internalization

Question 5

The sense of oneself is tied to what one knows, and what one
knows how to do

Answer 5

Internalization