Feminism and the Final Foucault is the first systematic offering of contemporary, international feminist perspectives on the later work of philosopher Michel Foucault. Rather than simply debating the merits or limitations of Foucault's later work, the essays in this collection examine women's historical self-practices, conceive of feminism as a shared ethos, and consider the political significance of this conceptualization in order to elucidate, experiment with, and put into practice the conceptual tools that Foucault offers for feminist ethics and politics. The volume illustrates the ways in...
Feminism and the Final Foucault is the first systematic offering of contemporary, international feminist perspectives on the later work of philosopher...
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"Accessible, attractively written (and very well translated), Vintges's study is a convincing defence of de Beauvoir against some of the more commo...
