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body politic, in Western political thought, an ancient metaphor by which a state, society, or church and its institutions are conceived of as a biological (usually human) body.
- Joëlle Rollo-Koster
May 9, 2024 · In 18th-century Europe, scholars and political theorists produced reams of texts advocating “toleration, equality, liberty, cosmopolitanism, and natural rights” alongside works defining hierarchical categories based on “race, sex, and gender.”
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Apr 7, 2017 · The theme of body politics directs our attention to how bodies are included or excluded in the polity. How do governments respond to the political demands of bodies that transgress normative boundaries? What ways do physical representations of difference impact power relations?
1 day ago · Quick Reference. 1. An ideological struggle between individuals, groups, and social institutions over control of the human body. 2. Institutionalized social practices and policies through which the human body is regulated. 3.
The body politic is a polity—such as a city, realm, or state—considered metaphorically as a physical body. Historically, the sovereign is typically portrayed as the body's head, and the analogy may also be extended to other anatomical parts, as in political readings of Aesop 's fable of " The Belly and the Members ".
The term body politics refers to the practices and policies through which powers of society regulate the human body, as well as the struggle over the degree of individual and social control of the body.
These are political struggles to define emerging polities, sovereignty, and rights through the body - who is the citizen, what are his rights, how should the polity be constituted?
