| Description |
ix, 230 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy |
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SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
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| Contents |
The Feminism and Foucault Debate: Stakes, Issues, Positions -- Foucault, Feminism, and Norms -- Postmodernism and Politics -- Feminist Critics -- Genealogy As Critique -- Problems With Power -- Foucault's Skepticism -- Conclusion: Foucault and Feminist Resistance -- Foucault and the Subject of Feminism -- Feminist Critics -- Foucault's Challenge to Subjectivity -- Foucault's Refusal -- Foucault's Genealogy of the Subject -- Aesthetics of Existence: Life as a Work of Art -- The Relational Feminist Subject -- Foucault and the Body: A Feminist Reappraisal -- Foucault's Body -- Feminist Extenders: Disciplinary Practices and the Feminine Body -- A Foucauldian Feminist Criticism of Foucault's Body -- Feminist Resistance to the Deployment of Sexuality -- Identity Politics: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality -- Identity Politics -- Foucault on Identity -- Postmodern Criticisms of Identity Politics -- Herculine Barbin and the Sexed Body -- Bisexuality: Identity and Politics -- Practices of the Self: From Self-transformation to Social Transformation -- Foucault's Technologies of the Self -- Self-Writing -- Parrhesia (Truth telling) -- Consciousness-Raising |
| Summary |
"Addressing central questions in the debate about Foucault's usefulness for politics, including his rejection of universal norms, his conception of power and power-knowledge, his seemingly contradictory position on subjectivity and his resistance to using identity as a political category, McLaren argues that Foucault employs a conception of embodied subjectivity that is well-suited for feminism. She applies Foucault's notion of practices of the self to contemporary feminist practices, such as consciousness-raising and autobiography, and concludes that the connection between self-transformation and social transformation that Foucault theorizes as the connection between subjectivity and institutional and social norms is crucial for contemporary feminist theory and politics."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
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Feminist theory.
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Subjectivity.
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| LC no. |
2002021087 |
| ISBN |
0791455149 paperback |
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0791455130 cased |
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