UR3596-DRP000719

Faculty: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna

Examining Jacobs-Foucauldian Gaze at the Urban Edge in Feminist Theories

Micheal Foucault’s ‘Discipline and Punish’ examines the theories of Control and Power to exert discipline through the production of ‘docile bodies’ as a mechanism of authority in cities. This principle has been examined and critiqued by Feminist theorists in socio-cultural studies, where the panopticgaze mediates control over the ‘Female body’.