Although the use that Bartky and Bordo make of Foucault′s insights into the operation of normalizing disciplinary power is a corrective to his failure to recognize the gendered nature of
disciplinary techniques, some feminists have argued that their work reproduces a problematic dimension of Foucault′s account of modern disciplinary power. Jana Sawicki explains that the problem
faced by this kind of feminist appropriation of Foucault is its inability to account for effective resistance to disciplinary practices. use foucault, judith butler, and other notable philosophers
from academia only as resources