In short, biopolitics can be understood as a political rationality which takes as its subject the administration of life and populations: “ensuring, maintaining and multiplying life, putting order in this life”. 9. While Arendt studies power through its relationship to politics, Foucault offers an alternative method. Instead of starting from the perspective of the exercise of power, his approach takes as a starting point “the forms of resistance against different forms of power” -1. This distinction in the methodological orientation of. The concept of hard power and soft power is a continuum composed of several instruments of different degrees of coercion or persuasion. These instruments are punishment, coercion, incitement, agenda setting, persuasion and attraction cf. Smith-Windsor, 2000, p. 52. The effectiveness of hard power and soft power approaches depends on the situation of the blind in 19th century Europe. He then describes the invention of Braille and the gradual process of its acceptance in the context of the education of the blind. Subsequently, he explores the widespread effects of this invention on the social and cultural lives of the blind. Power takes different forms in different societies. Let me tell you about the five basic forms of government. The monarchy. Let's start with the monarchy. Monarchy was the most common form. Gender divides power. Inequalities between men and women constitute one of the most persistent patterns in the distribution of power. For example, the lack of influence of women marks political decision-making around the world. Gender relations are power relations. Often what it means to be a "woman" is to be helpless, silent, obedient,