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Punishing & Policing Bodies & Minds GSST 1S
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Punishing & Policing Bodies & Minds
• Social control refers to methods used to teach, persuade, or force people to comply with the norms and expectations of a group or society.
• Social control helps maintain the existing social order by reducing non-conformity and resistance.
Major Mechanisms of Policing & Punishing Socialization Victimization Regulation Stigmatization Pathologizing Criminalization These can (and typically do) operate simultaneously!
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Ida B. Wells, “The Red Record” (#18) Whites in the American South lynched an
estimated 4,075 Black Americans between 1877-1950.
Whites used lynching as a tool of terror and control
Ida B.Wells 1862-1931
National Memorial to Peace and Justice, Montgomery, AL
Who Did Lynching Impact? Everyone! Not just the victims and their families and
loved ones, not just the perpetrators Lynching shaped influenced everyone’s thinking and
behavior Keep thinking about this as we talk about violence
against women, gender-based violence, and hate crime
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Biopower “an explosion of numerous and
diverse techniques for achieving the subjugation of bodies and the control of populations”
Michel Foucault, 1926‐1984
Regulation of Gender & Sexuality through Laws about Birth Control & Abortion (Ferguson #43)
Problematizes state regulation of birth control and abortion and argues reproductive justice advocates must make more radical claims to achieve sexual freedom
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Summary Gender socialization teaches us about the norms and
expectations of gender and sexuality in society and in subgroups within society
A range of mechanisms—which we will continue talking about for the next two weeks—help police and punish people to endorse conformity and maintain cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy.
We have pathways and possibilities for resistance!