Bartky through Foucault talks about bodies in desks the same way as bodies as soldiers. It brings me back to my time in drum corps. When I went back to school, I sat up so straight for so long, because it seemed like the more natural thing to do. I have never had more of an awareness of my body than in my time then. 

The perception of self-surveillance is something I was aware of, but not explicitly in my mind with Foucault. I will keep those linked. "prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons"

"Whatever its ultimate effect, discipline can provide the individual upon whom it is imposed with a sense of mastery as well as a secure sense of identity.... thus feminism threatens women with a certain de-skilling, something people normally resist: beyond this, it calls into question that aspect of personal identity that is tied to the development of a sense of competence."

Notes

Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power

boring books

Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
1997

boring books

Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power1997

Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
1997