Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body

ISBN-13: 9780415901888 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 144 str.

Jana Sawicki

Opis

It has been argued that the discourses of western culture are thoroughly masculinist and offer no place for women. Women's only possibilities are to speak in a masculine voice, construct a new language, or be silent. Foucault's highly influential analyses of power and knowledge would therefore be irrelevant for the women's movement, and use of his discourse might even undermine feminism as an emancipatory project.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Note on the text -- Introduction. Disciplining Foucault: -- Personal Reflections1. Foucault and Feminism: -- Toward a Politics of Difference -- 2. Identity Politics and Sexual Freedom -- 3. Feminism and the Power of Foucauldian Discourse: Foucault and Mothering Theory -- 4. Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies -- 5. Foucault and Feminism: -- A Critical Reappraisal -- Notes -- Index --

O autorze

Jana Sawicki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Williams College.