ISBN : 9782296095045
GENDER STEREOTYPES
Pascaline Gaborit
"In a social construction linked to gender, it makes no difference
whether men and women act in a different or similar way. The social
institution insists on the fact that what they do together or separately is
perceived as differentl". As Michel Foucault shows, the current oppositions
that oppose feminine and masculine are inherited from the 19th century
bourgeois conceptions of sexuality. According to him, "in western societies,
the production of a discourse loaded (at least in a given moment) with a
value of truth is linked to the different mechanisms and institutions of
power3". He describes in fact how "the power relations pass materially
inside the body without being taken over by the representations of the
subjects4". The relations between gender