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Ganji M, Amirmazaheri A, Labibi M. (2020). Discourse struggles in the field of women body manipulation and representation. Social Problems of Iran. 11(1), 233-256. doi:10.29252/jspi.11.1.233
URL: http://jspi.khu.ac.ir/article-1-3258-en.html

The present article studies the discourse conflicts and inverted readings of the body in the field of the body and its representation. By focusing on Foucault's genealogical method (analyzing the resistance and discursive accidents) about power relations and body manipulation w come to perceive a specific model of the relationship between power and existing signifiers in social and cultural context of society over the body of women. Because the body of women is considered as a text. This study shows that the representation and manipulation of the body of women reflects the power relations and dominant discourses in society at any historical point. In fact, the main question that this article tries to answer is how the ruling system or systems of discourse in society cause the body to be represented, manipulated, and read. In other words, why has the representation and manipulation of the body been read differently in different periods in the field of symbols and meanings? What social and cultural conditions have aesthetic standards influenced in each discourse? Can traces of power and discourse be sought in how the body is manipulated? The findings of this study show that the management and governance of women's body is not fully consistent with their chosen conditions and their structures are based on ideologies and the type of discourse prevailing in certain historical periods in every period of history. In the process of "power", the body becomes a discourse of reproduction and institutionalization.