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.”

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.”

The Body  Wolff: “The body is increasingly brought into discourse, and supervised, observed, and controlled by a variety of disciplines. In this process…control operates through internalization and becomes self -surveillance.”

The Body  Do you agree with Wolff’s argument that women collude in their own oppression through the body?  Frida Kahlo uses her body as a political and cultural critique  Do you agree with Wolff’s argument that women collude in their own oppression through the body?  Frida Kahlo uses her body as a political and cultural critique

The Body  Wolff: “The body…is a social, historical, and ideological construct.”

America in the 1970s Nixon: “In the mid-1970s, the U.S. began to lose its sense of purpose…America’s confidence was broken…Instead of shaping history, the nation let itself be buffeted by events.”

America in the 1970s Fall of Saigon

America in the 1970s Energy Crisis

America in the 1970s

The “Soft” Body

The “Hard” Body

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.”

The Body and the Nation  “A nation exists as something to be seen.”  Hollywood films provide insight into the construction of American national identity.  “A nation exists as something to be seen.”  Hollywood films provide insight into the construction of American national identity.