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Confession, surveillance and subjectivity : a discourse analytic approach to advice columns
Bibliography: leaves 162-180.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/7858 Confession, surveillance and subjectivity : a discourse analytic approach to advice columns Wilbraham, Lindy Anne Levett, Ann Research Psychology Bibliography: leaves 162-180. This dissertation applies the theoretical ideas of Michel Foucault -viz. confession, surveillance and subjectivity - to advice columns from three South African women's magazines. An interpretative analysis effects of discourse, renders salient the relationship between knowledges, discursive practices, power and institutions. Using, as a standing point, Wendy Hollway's work on subject positioning of women in discourses concerning heterosexual relationship practice, the ways in which women are impelled to ""work"" in psychologized and medicalized ways to effect normalization in ""crises"" of ""physical attractiveness"" and ""monogamy"" are examined in advice texts. These technologies and practices produce rewards of power for Subjection, and these powers are critically discussed in terms of (a) ""liberal"" / ""humanist"", ''feminist'' and ""Foucauldian"" strategies of women's empowerment, and (b) the formal dynamics and constraints of advice columns. 2014-10-01T08:06:49Z 2014-10-01T08:06:49Z 1994 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7858 eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Confession, surveillance and subjectivity : a discourse analytic approach to advice columns |
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| title_short | Confession, surveillance and subjectivity : a discourse analytic approach to advice columns |
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