A lens for viewing self-policing -- Gender and self-policing -- Challenging negative identity practices-narrative therapy -- Immanent critiques : expanded possibilities for refusing self-policing -- An ethics of care for the self -- Foucault and therapy-a contradiction?
Summary
Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady explores the relationship women have with themselves and explores the link between debilitating practices of self-surveillance and the broader mechanisms of social control