SOC305 Feminism

Critique of Foucault

• Reinvigorate view of feminism: needs to think
• about what needs to be done to improve

• Governmentality & Foucault is critiqued
• for not doing enough

Liberalism provides no meaningful solution

• Narratives as subversive (she
• likes this idea)

Provides different tool for studying sociology

• However
• most researchers dubbed it not scientific
• enough, to experiential/personal

Add women and stir problem

• Feminism:
• Whatever theory is developed, lets add women and stir the problem up

Lower crime rates therefore not interesting subject/theory/topic



Sexist assumptions in many theories of crime

• Women are
• deceitful, less advanced etc.

• These theories are weak b/c they do not completely
• analyze, they just add
• women and stir

• Criminology can do more than look at the
• causes of crime

Mainstream=Malestream



Hirschi critique

• Looking at conformity but ignoring
• women

• Suggests
• that women are more conforming, then
• ignores

Violence against women

• 'to remain safe, women
• should avoid dressing like sluts' Toronto Police Officer [MALESTREAM]

Way of 'being' in the world



Iris Marion Young

• Gender behaviour being
• taught are unequal to that of males; women crossing legs (pulling 'into' self) while sitting and
• males spread open legs (taking up space)

Language and its use

• Is
• structured to have same embodiment effects
• Adrienne Rich poem

• Very neat
• and organized poetry (when oppressed within family & b4 lesbian
• discovery)
• Less organized after discovery lesbianism

• Policing is a masculine
• enterprise - inherently masculine
• Metaphoric (Nightmares)

Big Brother




Policing as a 'maintenance of order and the guaranteeing of security'


Ericson

Surveillant assemblages

• Number of
• networks being linked together with information about everyone

'Born… then immediately electronically monitored

• Ignores Prenatal screening as
• a form of policing

It’s policing (dis)order

• Frequently occurs in down
• syndrome testing

• Termination
• implied in asking whether baby has down syndrome before birth

Genetic Counsellors

• A form of
• eugenics under the gaze of empowerment with choice and information

Birth as a moment of Policing

• Pregnant embodiment - Alice
• Adams

• Women in
• medical journals in the past sets frame work for male gaze

• Women
• were only important for womb … child inside was most important

Marx

• Insecurity wrapped up in
• capitalism

• Ruling
• class are insecurity and need to come up with new things to stay on top

Foucault

• Sovereign {concerned} about
• securing territory/population

Valverde Problem

• This is why security often
• looks like a thing

• Seen as
• something we can obtain more of

Stanko

• Safety talk co-opted by
• responsibilization talk

• Responsibilization:
• people need to do what they can ensure own safety

• Ignores
• and fails to distinct how women think about safety

• Danger not form capitalism
• only - also misogyny

Safety is under-theorized

Security encroaches on safety

Thinking in the same regard; goal: Locking down threats

• Security related to
• liberal/capitalistic order

• What's mine
• is mine; must protect from other people

Security as related to patriarchal order

Both delineating/separating bodies