Hegemonic Force

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There are many theories in this world which are very difficult to answer. We struggle to find out why do humans act the way they do. What happens and what are the experiences that a person must go through to make these decisions? I'm attempting to look for answers on the factors that influence a human to decide their gender and sexual desires There are acts we put on every day, But why do we decide to act the way we do? One of those reasons could be because of a hegemonic force. A hegemony or a hegemonic force is an indirect way of imperial dominance. There could be signs of hegemonic forces brought up in countless themes.

Sex is usually determined by the anatomical difference between male and female bodies. Judith states, " Anatomical …show more content…
Are women really supposed to have feminine traits or is it just apart of them? Lesbians and gay defy the idea of there being a natural gender. The text states," Divine notwithstanding, gender practices within gay and lesbian cultures often thematize 'the natural' in pariodic contexts that bring into relief the performative construction of an original and true sex". Judith is trying to explain that there is only one original true sex. What is that true sex though? According to Judith, the true sex is one gender which decides on its own what does it want to be and its sexual desires.

Who shaped the interests of women? The text states, "In the case of feminism, politics is ostensibly shaped to express the interests, the perspectives, of "women". "How was this identity shaped for women", Judith asks. She wonders whether if a women's body develops these identities or if their qualities women attain through culture. Can it be politics which forces these identities on …show more content…
Taboos are religious or social practices that are forbidden. Douglas in the text concludes that " what constitutes the limit of the body is never merely material, but that the surface, the skin, is systematically signified by taboos and anticipated transgressions; indeed, the boundaries of the body become, within her analysis, the limits of the social per se".

Has anyone broke through the power regime like history? Foucault analyzed Herculine the hermaphrodite and says she has broken "through the surface of the body to disrupt the regulating practices of cultural coherence imposed upon that body by a power regime"(2544).

In our culture we have been making a relationship between AIDS and homophobic people. The text states," Not only is this illness figured as the 'gay disease,' but throughout the medias hysterical and homophobic response to the illness there is a tactical construction of a continuity between the polluted status of the homosexual....". The media in today's day has been making fun of gay people and saying they have aids; By the media doing that there making it seem like it's okay to laugh at gay people with
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