The Silenced Body: Institutionalization of gender and gender regimes
Title: The Silenced Body: Institutionalization of gender and gender regimes
Category: /History
Details: Words: 1718 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Silenced Body: Institutionalization of gender and gender regimes
Category: /History
Details: Words: 1718 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
In a society where the phenomenological value and history is validated through a
patriarchal order, the female identity becomes neutralized and imposed upon the
constitution corresponding to its biased and specific conditions. Thus, the female
body becomes the silenced body, the body unable of expression, deserted by it's
embodiment, and silenced by the primacy of the male culture. In this essay I will
discern the issues that negate and repress the female body of her
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embodiment as the general model of identity,
and showing the male's identity as a variant of it. Thus, we conceive that by
expressing the female body, we are recreating it by displacing the traditional
ideological constructions, and substituting it with the "real" self of the body. The
silenced body can then be liberated from the identity that has being kept under seal,
and explore an self that can only be discovered by its own language.