Feminism, Foucault, and embodied subjectivity /
"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,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
2002
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| Series: | SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "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."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058549245X 9780585492452 0791455130 9780791455135 0791455149 9780791455142 9780791487938 0791487938 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
