| Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity Contributor(s): McLaren, Margaret A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791455149 ISBN-13: 9780791455142 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 305.42 |
| LCCN: 2002021087 |
| Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.02" W x 9.12" (0.70 lbs) 240 pages |