Gölgedeki Bedenler: Bedenġn Inşa Sürecinde Toplumsalin Etkileri
Bodies in the Shadow: Effects of the Social on the Construction of the Body

Summary/Abstract: Even though “the body” became an academic research subject only recently, it has always been shaped by the body politics of social processes, and micro and macro power mechanisms. Accordingly, the increase in the number of gender studies, which head towards individualities and the problematization of gender itself rather than demanding social rights by combining contemporary ideas with feminist theory, has expanded the scope of the research on “the body”. While the studies on subjects and individualities construct a language in terms of “the body”, the effects of the social on individuals have also been reshaped within the context of this very language. This study aims to explore the effects of social politics specifically body politics on the formation process of the individual identities/subjects. How is the body shaped/formed by the societies? How is the sense/image of the body formed? What is the effect of power mechanisms to these processes? What funtions are the bodies, which are formed socially via education or tradition, given? In this study, social bodies are examined under three topics: dancing bodies, sportive bodies and ideal bodies. In the first two , body is predominantly an instrument of expression of the subject or the society while the third topic leads us to a much exclusive area. The questions that come into predominance in these topics are: does “the „dancing body‟” express the individual or the social? How does body politics effect “the „dancing body‟”? What are the functions of “the „sportive bodies‟” in social processes? What are the roles of the body and gender politics in the formation process of the body sense/image? What is an „ideal body‟, how is it formed, what functions does it have? This study intends to problematize not only the body politics but also gender politics and gendered bodies in terms of the body.

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