Words By Women: Jana Sawicki
- Julia de la Torre
- Mar 9, 2017
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 3, 2018
“The woman who checks her make up half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that the wind or the rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle or who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become a self-policing subject, a self-committed to a relentless self-surveillance. This self-surveillance is a form of obedience to patriarchy.”
— Jana Sawicki
Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body (1991)

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In honor of International Women's Day, this week we will publish Words By Women, a segment featuring quotes, poetry and literature by fearless women.
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