There is a similarity between Bartky and Foucault's notion of power and how it has an effect on the body. Whether from a disciplinary point of view or from the point of view we have on the physical body itself. The links between the two philosophers provide insight into the problematic concept of power. I will argue that when power is pushed to the extreme, aggressive practices occur. Starting with mental thoughts about their body, through to allowing themselves to modify and perform drastic measures by being subject to and out of discipline by conforming to the standard being considered. allow the norms of patriarchy to be maintained. Power comes through domination and discipline allows you to obtain power. It is the way in which individuals are repressed in the construction of social norms. I share Foucault’s perception of the docile body. “The body as object and target of power…A body is docile and can be subjected, used, transformed and improved” (Foucault, 136). Society has the power to accept a type of "norm" of the human body and how it is supposed to appear and if the alternative does not suit it can simply change its appearance as normal. Showing the body with an object makes it easy to transform or test it to get as close as possible to the envisaged conformity. With power comes control, one type of control can be discipline and the extent to which one obeys the rules. Having disciplinary power is not a form of punishment but a way of shaping and structuring oneself. Foucault states that “the human body enters into a machinery of power which explores it, decomposes it and reorganizes it. A "political anatomy", which was also a "mechanics of power",...... middle of paper ...... led people to take drastic measures for a human being to change, their allowing one to conform to what was considered the norm at that time, if one does not conform to the norm there is a risk of shame and fear of missing out. Disciplinary power Bartky and Foucault discuss aspects to which a person is conformed at the time of their birth. This power has allowed us to hold ourselves to norms and self-impose gendered constructions of our appearance, regardless of the violent practices that take place on and through a person's body. Works Cited Bartky, Sandra Lee. “Foucault, femininity and the modernization of patriarchal power. » Femininity and domination: studies on the phenomenology of oppression, 1988. 63-82.Print.Foucault, Michel. “Docile bodies”. Monitor and punish: the birth of the prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan, 1996. 135-38. Print.