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The Silenced Body: Institutionalization of gender and gender regimes

Date Submitted: 11/19/2004 01:51:56
Category: / History
Length: 6 pages (1718 words)
Views: 184099

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.

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