The role of governmentality in the construction of the feminine subject among working women

Abstract EN

The individual can never exist and develop as a subject outside societal institutions that constitute hotbeds for her/his formation.

This paper attempts to underscore the process of subject formation that working females undergo within the Algerian society.

Two main institutions are involved: the family and the work market that systematically (co) operate in a seemingly individualistic guise (freedom, choice, ..) to eventually set the boundaries of the feminine self unfolding common ideals and goals among women.

Hence, the Foucauldian theory of governmentality is utilized to unearth the complicity among these disciplining institutions and their impact on women