Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
Margaret A. McLaren
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.
Рік:
2002
Видавництво:
State University of New York Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
230
ISBN 10:
0791487938
ISBN 13:
9780791487938
Серії:
SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Файл:
PDF, 1.41 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002