There are two different forms of power that men decide to exert on women. The first one is violence, girls exposed to violence is commonplace in India. This includes hitting, beating, raping, and verbal abuse. Women typically are malnourished and weak, so it makes it hard for them to fight back. The second form of violence is psychological abuse, men threaten women with their words in order to perpetually to instill a deep fear within them. Abuse in this form is worse than physical as a result of its imprints on them for the remainder of their lives.
There's an urgent need to scale back feminized poverty and promote the education of girls in India. In 2013, the world Human Development Report ranked India 32 out of 148 countries on its Gender
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In India when men from prisons they return to their violent patterns of behaviors. This creates a damaging outcome for all facets of India's society. All of this ties together with the end result being violence. Foucault's thoughts on the body and gender are thought of as social constructs. Everyday interactions have an important attachment to women's policy. From the perspective of a feminist, Foucault should aim to scale back risky behaviors by women. For Foucault, he associates biology with the social science discussions on sex and …show more content…
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However, there are other critiques that take a different approach on the oppression that exists in the novel. In "Urban Panopticism And Heterotopic Space In Kafka 's Der Process And Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four,” Raj Shah argues that the way in which society in novel is oppressed is not an obvious oppression but one that focuses on constant surveillance. He uses Foucault’s arguments on panopticism to describe this. Shah states, “Foucault neologizes panopticism to describe a form of power relying not on overt repression, but rather upon the continuous surveillance of a population and the consequent strict regulation of the body” (703). He explains it is the constant surveillance that strips individuals of their rights and places them under oppression. He goes on to
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In Discipline & Punish, Michel Foucault criticizes the penal system in which discipline and punishment have shifted from corporal to the mind and soul. Foucault argues that the implementation of prisons over torture has not made it more humane for the criminal, it has, however, transition the punishment from the body to the soul. While the reader holds the very eloquently title book, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, Foucault’s argument is feed to the reader long before the first chapter is read. “The Birth of the Prison” indicates that the evolution of punishment is imminent. While Foucault narrates a public execution that took place in France of 1757, The reader is forced to recognize Foucault argument at a subconscious level.
In his 1975 book, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, French philosopher Michel Foucault proposed that the prison system -- along with other social institutions like the hospital, school, and army barracks – acts as a form of social control. Rather than being punished or rehabilitated, inmates are reeducated into an obedient docility, thus maintaining the social hierarchy. Though Foucault’s claims may appear rather reductive and dystopian, he is careful to note that the sole reason the prison (and other social institutions) are able propagate this induced docility is because their true purpose is kept largely clandestine: the prison’s ideal function is to punish and rehabilitate; however, its actual function is the establishment
...easily controls and manipulates the way individuals behave. Although there are no true discourses about what is normal or abnormal to do in society, people understand and believe these discourses to be true or false, and that way they are manipulated by powers. This sexual science is a form of disciplinary control that imprisons and keeps society under surveillance. It makes people feel someone is looking at them and internally become subjective to the rules and power of society. This is really the problem of living in modern society. In conclusion, people live in a society, which has created fear on people of society, that makes people feel and be responsible for their acts. Discourses are really a form in which power is exercised to discipline societies. Foucault’s argument claims discourses are a form of subjection, but this occurs externally not internally.
Gender-based violence is made possible by the ideology of sexism in Indian traditional culture which argues that women are worth less than men in the sense of having less power, status, privilege, and access to resources that is more prevalent in middle class and low caste families.
It is often said that sexism is a subject of the past, and yet women still face gender oppression throughout their lives. The concept of Gender oppression, defined as persecution associated with the gender norms, relations, and stratification in a society. Indian culture perceives men as the breadwinners and women as the caregiver for her family. In a country like India, Patriarchy has been a norm for about two hundred years; the society of India has emerged to become a patriarchal society. Women have been empowered from raising their voices and are kept silent in cases, including sexual abused or verbal abuse. Such issues have imposed women of India to live under a glass ceiling, limiting them to reach their full potential. This structure has lead India to be a patriarchal society, where men are the breadwinners, and women are caretakers of their families.
...the hardest goals to accomplish, as cultural beliefs and values are often set in stone and cannot be changed instantaneously. Changing rigid gender stereotypes could take many years, so it is imperative that solutions be implemented over the long-term. Women should continue to be educated, and people should work towards a greater share in household responsibilities among families (24). A more holistic approach is needed, and social support for rural women should also be enhanced (24). Furthermore, it is essential that responses to the matter are culturally sensitive; for instance, divorce is often not a viable option for many women in India who fear being stigmatized by their communities. Overall, researchers should continue to conduct further studies in order to understand the roots of family violence in India, and work towards eradicating the issue altogether.
Foucault, Michel. “Panopticism.” Ways of Reading. Fifth ed. Ed. David Barholomae and Anthony Petrosky. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999, 312-342. Print.
In doing so, Foucault famously compares contemporary society to a prison- “prison is not so unlike what happens every day.” Ultimately, Foucault attempts to exemplify
In Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power by Sandra Bartky, the writer examines the disciplinary practices which produces a body that gesture and appearance is feminine. Bartky challenges the social construction of femininity by revealing how feminine serves the interest of domination. She talks about apparatus of discipline, the disciplinarians that discipline. According to her, it is a system of micro power that is essentially non-egalitarian and asymmetrical. Taking into consideration one of the concepts of her analysis, feminine bodily discipline is something imposed on subjects and at the same time something that can be sought voluntarily. I will base my analysis on these dual characters and I will demonstrate that the production of femininity is more like something imposed
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The concept of panopticon in the penal system, which showed immediate success in reform and discipline, eventually leads to it being linked to every component of the modern society. Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and Foucault concept of Panopticism is seen in many places today in our society. Wherever you look you will certainly find places like, schools, hospital, factories, asylums, and even universities, represent Panopticism because all of this places have some kind of surveillance s...
For women in India, the last century has marked a great amount of progress, but at times it has been as stubborn as all the centuries before it. Women have been expanding their roles in society, at home, and even politics with female Prime Minster Indira Gandhi. Gender roles are ingrained deeply, however, and that is no more apparent than in the current rape epidemic. Specifically the last 40 years have been some of the most promising for Indian women, but they have also seen an 875% increase in rape cases (Park). The answers to why this is happening, and why it is happening now may open up a much deeper issue. The social climate is changing; a power struggle between genders steadies the quantity of violence against women. Meanwhile, their empowerment to speak out and hold a rapist accountable brings it to the attention of the world. A longstanding injustice that has been occurring right bellow the surface for years may have reached its boiling point.