The Fitness Dispositive in Postfeminist Healthism: Women Empowerment Discourses through Body Discipline by Albet Castillejo, Laura

“…I explore the tensions between the new feminist proclamations of women’s liberation and the persistence of patriarchal demands, in what seems to be resolved under the strategy of total alignment between one’s own desire and the desire of the system, through narratives of body care, self-love and personal development. For this purpose, I work through three central concepts, namely “postfeminism” (Gill, 2007), “healthism” (Crawford, 1980) and “fitness dispositive” (Costa, 2010), which I relate to the figure of the “entrepreneur of the self” as theorized by Michel Foucault. …”
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Dolan’s trilogy: two or three? by Rabain, Nicolas

“…On whom can we rely to keep at arm’s length a mother with a thousand faces: devoted, protective, firstmirror of the self, loving and beloved; but also seductive, intrusive, abusive and treacherous, who, in turn, invades and abandons?…”
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