External surveillance becomes internalized and self-imposed discipline on women’s bodies.
Evidence
By changing the color of her hijab, Ayesha was responding to her surveillance. She altered her dress because the gaze made her so uncomfortable that she wanted to avoid it, exemplifying how powerful discipline can be. In this case, external surveillance became internalized and self-imposed. Ayesha did not feel she had the freedom to dress as she would like but instead had to think carefully about what she would wear in order to avoid the gaze on her body. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 371
Categorization
- XREF: Directly extends the reader’s guiding question about how surveillance lands on women’s bodies vis-a-vis men — connects to the intro framing of surveillance racializing bodies and to Beydoun’s work on racialization. — connects to: Control shifts from external surveillance to a deterrence system internalized as the self. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 108; Women become immoral by embodying an inhuman ideal imposed on them. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1352; Workers in new bureaucracies become their own auditors under internalized surveillance (+1 more)
- DEEPTHINKING: This is the core mechanism passage: Foucaultian discipline made materially concrete — the gaze becomes self-censoring dress choice, evidence that surveillance (not just law) produces docile bodies.