Every kind of power – from religious to the political one – acts on bodies. Power seems to preexist a system based on norms, by creating symbolic rules that make a strict distinction between a «natural» and «legitimate» use of the body and an «unnatural», «perverse» one.
It’s all about people’s intimacy, sexuality and reproduction. With body and birth control, all society gets regulated and controlled.
During the 20th century, feminist movements faced with cultural and political themes that concern the body. In this way they uncovered discriminations, subordinations and deletions women have gone through for centuries.
Invisible mechanisms still condition our freedom, while the conquests we thought have achieved are questioned once again; keywords of feminism are subjected to a twist that may distort their meaning.