1. Week 11 Embodiment & Feminist Theory
Revision
Week 11
Embodiment & Feminist Theory

2. Exam Format Exam is 2 hours long Requirement to answer 2 questions
Both questions have equal weighting

3. Is the body natural? The impact of culture
Sex and Gender
Cartesian dualism
Pure and polluted bodies

4. Embodying class, ‘race’ and gender
Embodiment of class
Femininity is always a classed position
Bodies are racialised

5. ‘Imperfect Bodies?’ the politics of disability and ageing
Social construction of disability
Ageing is always a gendered identity

6. Medical power and surveillance
Normal bodily processes can be defined as medical matters
Biopower
Surveillance medicine

7. The Politics of HIV/AIDS
The association with deviance impacts on prevention and treatment services
Women are made more vulnerable because of both biological and social factors

8. ‘What’s love got to do with it?’ Emotional Bodies
Emotions are socially constructed
Feeling rules
Emotional labour

9. Dressing Up: Fashion and beauty fascism?
Gendered impact of appearance rules
Beauty Myth perpetuates inequality
Fashion as a method of empowerment

10. Vulnerable Bodies - Gendered violence
Violence is about power relationships
Builds of ideas about femininity and masculinity
Men and women are affected by gendered violence

11. The rise of the Cyborg?
Technology interrelated with social relationships
Cyborg and cyberspace build on existing identities
Commodification of bodies/body parts

12. Good exam answers
Have a clear structure (introduction, main, conclusion)
Will construct a strong argument
Integrate theory with examples