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Punishing & Policing Bodies & Minds GSST 1S

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Talking about Difficult Topics Take care of yourself Seek support if you need it (see syllabus for UCR

resources) Remember that YOU can control the course videos Reach out to Prof. G. if you need accommodation

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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!