Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity

by Margaret A. Mclaren

2020-12-29 21:01:33

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 ... Read more
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. Less

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File size9 X 6 X 1 in
Print pages240
PublisherState University of New York Press
Publication date October 10, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780791455142
Margaret A. McLaren teaches Philosophy and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Rollins College where she holds the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Chair of Philosophy. She is the author of Femi...

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