Disciplining in Traditional Sexual Roles. The Institutionalisation of Women in Residential Centres

Abstract

It is not easy to understand how, despite the economic cost, of not achieving the explicit objectives or responding to the needs and interests of women, their institutionalization survives and evolves from the Middle Ages to the present, adapting to the discourse of power on the protection of women. The objective of this work is to initiate a process of analysis and reflection on the institutionalization of women in residential centers of social services from the feminist perspective. For this, a review of secondary sources has been carried out on the history of the institutionalization of women and the mechanisms, discursive and non-discursive forms through which power is deployed, which have been present throughout the time and current specifics. Foucault's term device has made it possible to understand this type of institutionalization as a device for disciplining women in traditional sexual roles.