Sexualized bodies of the Filipino: Pleasure and desire as everyday truth and knowledge

This paper will show that attempts to control the body in late capitalism is replete with symbolic violence, but Filipinos have not succeeded in confining the body, thereby validating Foucault's (1980) critique of the repressive hypothesis. Ordinary narratives about the body in the Philippines...

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Main Author:	Contreras, Antonio P.
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Published:	Animo Repository 2014
Subjects:	Human body Human body—Erotic aspects Pleasure Sex Desire Philosophy
Online Access:	https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/575
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spelling	oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:faculty_research-15742021-12-17T02:39:32Z Sexualized bodies of the Filipino: Pleasure and desire as everyday truth and knowledge Contreras, Antonio P. This paper will show that attempts to control the body in late capitalism is replete with symbolic violence, but Filipinos have not succeeded in confining the body, thereby validating Foucault's (1980) critique of the repressive hypothesis. Ordinary narratives about the body in the Philippines exist not in the context of a settled template of silenced debates and repressed desires, but in the explosion of discourse and contestations, and of an intricate articulation between popular knowledge and truth, on one hand, and the ordinary and everyday experience of pleasure and desire, on the other. 2014-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/575 Faculty Research Work Animo Repository Human body Human body—Erotic aspects Pleasure Sex Desire Philosophy
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topic	Human body Human body—Erotic aspects Pleasure Sex Desire Philosophy
spellingShingle	Human body Human body—Erotic aspects Pleasure Sex Desire Philosophy Contreras, Antonio P. Sexualized bodies of the Filipino: Pleasure and desire as everyday truth and knowledge
description	This paper will show that attempts to control the body in late capitalism is replete with symbolic violence, but Filipinos have not succeeded in confining the body, thereby validating Foucault's (1980) critique of the repressive hypothesis. Ordinary narratives about the body in the Philippines exist not in the context of a settled template of silenced debates and repressed desires, but in the explosion of discourse and contestations, and of an intricate articulation between popular knowledge and truth, on one hand, and the ordinary and everyday experience of pleasure and desire, on the other.
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title	Sexualized bodies of the Filipino: Pleasure and desire as everyday truth and knowledge
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title_full	Sexualized bodies of the Filipino: Pleasure and desire as everyday truth and knowledge
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Sexualized bodies of the Filipino: Pleasure and desire as everyday truth and knowledge

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