Biopower
- Make live and let die
- Societal mechanisms of control
- Mode of empowerment?
- How power is exercised
- Mechanisms in society that have an effect on us without us necessarily realizing it
Beauty as a war tactic
- Context is important here
- U.S was very involved in warfare in Afghanistan during this time and that context is heavily a part of the essay
- Liberal feminist embrace of beauty
Mohanty's view on Western feminists
- How can we effectively have conversations across different identity groups
- Beauty as promise = the idea that your worth can be redeemed and you can achieve connection with others by becoming beautiful. 2) The distribution of beauty = designating some ppl/places as beautiful also implicitly implies the ugliness of other ppl/places (creating a hierarchy). 3) Beauty as pragmatic… Im not 100% sure about this one either!