Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied SubjectivitySUNY Press, 2002 M10 10 - 230 pages 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. |
Contents
THE FEMINISM AND FOUCAULT DEBATE STAKES ISSUES POSITIONS | 1 |
FOUCAULT FEMINISM AND NORMS | 19 |
POSTMODERNISM AND POLITICS | 20 |
FEMINIST CRITICS | 23 |
GENEALOGY AS CRITIQUE | 30 |
PROBLEMS WITH POWER | 36 |
FOUCAULTS SKEPTICISM | 41 |
FOUCAULT AND FEMINIST RESISTANCE | 48 |
FEMINIST RESISTANCE TO THE DEPLOYMENT OF SEXUALITY | 110 |
CONCLUSION | 114 |
IDENTITY POLITICS SEX GENDER AND SEXUALITY | 117 |
IDENTITY POLITICS | 118 |
FOUCAULT ON IDENTITY | 122 |
POSTMODERN CRITICISMS OF IDENTITY POLITICS | 124 |
HERCULINE BARBIN AND THE SEXED BODY | 127 |
IDENTITY AND POLITICS | 135 |
FOUCAULT AND THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM | 53 |
FEMINIST CRITICS | 54 |
FOUCAULTS CHALLENGE TO SUBJECTIVITY | 56 |
FOUCAULTS REFUSAL | 60 |
LIFE AS A WORK OF ART | 68 |
THE RELATIONAL FEMINIST SUBJECT | 74 |
CONCLUSION | 79 |
FOUCAULT AND THE BODY A FEMINIST REAPPRAISAL | 81 |
FOUCAULTS BODY | 83 |
DISCIPLINARY PRACTICES AND THE FEMININE BODY | 91 |
A FOUCAULDIAN FEMINIST CRITICISM OF FOUCAULTS BODY | 99 |
CONCLUSION | 142 |
PRACTICES OF THE SELF FROM SELFTRANSFORMATION TO SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION | 145 |
FOUCAULTS TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELF | 146 |
SELFWRITING | 148 |
PARRHESIATRUTH TELLING | 152 |
CONCLUSION | 162 |
CONCLUSION | 165 |
NOTES | 175 |
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