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The Alteration Of The Image – Women And Japanese Society (1600-2000), Frank Jacob
The Alteration Of The Image – Women And Japanese Society (1600-2000), Frank Jacob
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A survey paper on the development of the female image in Japan's society from the Tokugawa period until the 2000s.
Disciplining Yoga: Foucauldian Themes In Sivananda Yoga Practice, Mark E. Eaton
Disciplining Yoga: Foucauldian Themes In Sivananda Yoga Practice, Mark E. Eaton
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This paper considers the yoga practices at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center as “disciplinary” practices. Yoga has a long history of being interpreted as “discipline”; this paper will consider how it is disciplinary and what is being disciplined. To this end, this paper will frame Sivananda yoga as a discipline from two perspectives: Sarah Strauss’ characterization of yoga as an “oasis regime”; and Michel Foucault’s view of discipline as minute “carceral” elaborations of power. These approaches are contrasted and ultimately, following Foucault, yoga disciplines are understood as being constitutive of the subject. The disciplinary character of yoga at the Sivananda …