The Body

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The Body

• Janet Wolff The body has been systematically
  repressed and marginalized in Western culture,
  with specific practices, ideologies, and
  discourses controlling and defining the female
  body.

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The Body

• Janet Wolff The body operates as a symbol of
  society across cultures, and the rituals, rules,
  and boundaries concerning bodily behaviour can be
  understood as the functioning of social rules and
  hierarchies.

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The Body

• Wolff The body is increasingly brought into
  discourse, and supervised, observed, and
  controlled by a variety of disciplines. In this
  processcontrol operates through internalization
  and becomes self-surveillance.

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The Body

• Do you agree with Wolffs argument that women
  collude in their own oppression through the body?
• Frida Kahlo uses her body as a political and
  cultural critique

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The Body

• Wolff The bodyis a social, historical, and
  ideological construct.

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America in the 1970s

• Nixon In the mid-1970s, the U.S. began to lose
  its sense of purposeAmericas confidence was
  brokenInstead of shaping history, the nation let
  itself be buffeted by events.

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America in the 1970s

• Fall of Saigon

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America in the 1970s

• Energy Crisis

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America in the 1970s
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The Soft Body
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The Hard Body
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The Hard Body
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The Body and the Nation

• Jeffords it is how citizens see themselves
  and how they see those against whom they define
  themselves that determines national
  self-perception.

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The Body and the Nation

• A nation exists as something to be seen.
• Hollywood films provide insight into the
  construction of American national identity.