Abstract

Discourse of sexuality can not be released from the discourse of power and knowledge, which includes how culture is constructed to perpetuate the patriarchal power structure. Women are conditioned to rely on the judgment of others when trying to measure or assess their experiences concerning the issue of the body. Placed in the socio-cultural current, which helped shape the structure of women's experience of his body is a high social demand for concerned with aspects of physical appearance as a source of value and meaning of the body. This paper attempts to examine the female body as a social body with sociological analysis. In the world of patriarchy, women's bodies are not the private property of the women themselves, but become public because the body is set according to how the body is constructed. This paper is a review of several studies related to women and body with a literature study method Keywords: Body, Women, Construction, Culture

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