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Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity

Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity

McLaren, Margaret A.

Paperback

Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy

PhilosophyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0791455149
ISBN13: 9780791455142
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Oct 10 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

Argues that Foucault's work employs a conception of subjectivity that is well-suited for feminist theory and politics.

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.

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