In this Book
- Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: State University of New York Press
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.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780791487938
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
54053862
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No