Progress, Public Health, and Power

Foucault and the Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12924969
AutoresScott Mclean (0000-0002-6573-7615, University of Calgary, autor de correspondencia), Heather Rollwagen (0000-0002-5241-8527, University of Calgary)
Año2008
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas225-245
Fecha de publicación2008-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1755-6171 • E-ISSN: 1755-618X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1755-618x.2008.00015.x
PMID19579350
OpenAlexW1988811569
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas28

From 1911 to 1979, the Homemakers' Clubs of Saskatchewan mobilized and monitored extensive study and action in the field of public health. This article explores how these clubs exhorted women to strive for progress, and encouraged women to internalize such striving as fundamental to their own identities. The techniques used included encouraging commitment to shared goals, making such goals personal, structuring action, requiring women to report their thoughts and actions, rewarding certain behaviors, and linking those behaviors with emotionally compelling causes. Rooted in a Foucauldian conceptual framework, this article contributes to the sociological understanding of subject formation and governance

Humanities · Political science · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy