1. Women and Proper Healthcare
Michel Foucault defines biopower as a way to control and discipline without violent overt force but still have the same result in maintaining power. ... Biological and medical data are used by the institutions of the modern world she define, count, divide, and -discipline populations." ... In The Government of Living Beings, Foucault writes, "In contrast to more traditional forms of domination such as slavery or serfdom, discipline allows for the increase of the economic productivity of the body, while at the same time weakening its forces to a sure political subjection." ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate