Feminist Interpretations Of Michel Foucault

Author : Susan Hekman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271042046
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault written by Susan Hekman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the possibilities, however, Foucault's approach has raised serious questions about an equally crucial area of feminist thought - politics. Some feminist critics of Foucault have argued that his deconstruction of the concept "woman" also deconstructs the possibility of a feminist politics. Several essays explore the implications of this deconstruction for feminist politics and suggest that a Foucauldian feminist politics is not viable.

Author : Susan J. Hekman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271032715
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault written by Susan J. Hekman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting possibilities of a Foucauldian approach to issues of the subject and identity, especially as they relate to sex and the body, are detailed in several of the essays collected here. Despite the possibilities, however, Foucault's approach has raised serious questions about an equally crucial area of feminist thought - politics. Some feminist critics of Foucault have argued that his deconstruction of the concept "woman" also deconstructs the possibility of a feminist politics. Several essays explore the implications of this deconstruction for feminist politics and suggest that a Foucauldian feminist politics is not viable. Overall, this collection illustrates the range of interest Foucault's thought has generated among feminist thinkers and both the advantages and liabilities of his approach for the development of feminist theory and politics.

Author : Chloë Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367664992
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes written by Chloë Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together Foucault's writings on crime and delinquency, on the one hand, and sexuality, on the other, to argue for an anti-carceral feminist Foucauldian approach to sex crimes. The author expands on Foucault's writings through intersectional explorations of the critical race, decolonial, critical disability, queer and critical trans studies literatures on the prison that have emerged since the publication of Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality. Drawing on Foucault's insights from his genealogical period, the book argues that those labeled as sex offenders will today be constructed to re-offend twice over, once in virtue of the delinquency with which they are inculcated through criminological discourses and in the criminal punishment system, and second in virtue of the manners in which their sexual offense is taken up as an identity through psychological and sexological discourses. The book includes a discussion of non-retributive responses to crime, including preventative, redistributive, restorative, and transformative justice. It concludes with two appendixes: the original 19th-century medico-legal report on Charles Jouy and its English translation by the author. Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes will be of interest to feminist philosophers, Continental philosophers, Women's and Gender Studies scholars, social and political theorists, as well as social scientists and social justice activists.

Author : Dianna Taylor
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252029271
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Final Foucault written by Dianna Taylor and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism and the Final Foucault is the first systematic offering of contemporary, international feminist perspectives on the later work of philosopher Michel Foucault. Rather than simply debating the merits or limitations of Foucault's later work, the essays in this collection examine women's historical self-practices, conceive of feminism as a shared ethos, and consider the political significance of this conceptualization in order to elucidate, experiment with, and put into practice the conceptual "tools" that Foucault offers for feminist ethics and politics. The volume illustrates the ways in which Foucault's later thinking on ethics as "care of the self" can reintroduce a number of issues and themes that feminists jettisoned in the wake of postmodernism, including consciousness raising, feminist therapy, the subject woman, identity politics, and feminist agency. Taken as a whole, the diversity of feminist viewpoints presented provide important new insights into "the final Foucault," and thus serve as a productive intervention in current Foucault scholarship.

Author : Lois McNay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745677789
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault and Feminism written by Lois McNay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a systematic attempt to explore the point of convergance between feminist theory and the work of Michel Foucault.

Author : Caroline Ramazanoglu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134943288
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up Against Foucault written by Caroline Ramazanoglu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up Against Foucault introduces key aspects of Foucault's work to feminists, in ways which are less abstracted than much of the existing literature in this area. It includes an introduction to Foucault's terms, and fills a gap in the literature by clarifying the links between the everyday realities of women's lives and Foucault's work on sexuality and power. The contributors explore the implications of analysing power relations, sexuality or the body, without also thinking about gender and other social divisions. They bring their expertise from social theory and philosophy to bear on the same core issues; the ways in which Foucault provokes feminists into questioning their grasp of power relations, and the implications of the absence of gender in his own work. Up Against Foucault shows that in spite of his lack of interest in gender, Foucault does have much to offer feminism - proposing new ways of understanding the control of women and especially the control of sexuality and bodies. This book offers new ground in relating Foucault's challenge to feminism to feminisms challenge to Foucault. Feminists are up against Foucault because he questions the key conclusions which feminists have come to about the nature of gender relations, and men's possession of power. It is an appraisal of how seriously we need to take this challenge.

Author : Irene Diamond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism & Foucault written by Irene Diamond and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Michel Foucault's ideas on sexuality, ideology, and power have established him as one of this century's most influential thinkers, the implications of his work for feminists continue to be the subject of heated debate. This book fosters an unprecedented dialogue between Foucault and the fertile ground of contemporary feminism and explores the many ways these disparate approaches to cultural analysis converge and interact.

Author : Margaret A. McLaren
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487938
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity written by Margaret A. McLaren and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Shelley Tremain
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053736
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability written by Shelley Tremain and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses misrepresentations of Foucault's work within feminist philosophy and disability studies, offering a new feminist philosophy of disability

Author : Irene Diamond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism & Foucault written by Irene Diamond and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Michel Foucault's ideas on sexuality, ideology, and power have established him as one of this century's most influential thinkers, the implications of his work for feminists continue to be the subject of heated debate. This book fosters an unprecedented dialogue between Foucault and the fertile ground of contemporary feminism and explores the many ways these disparate approaches to cultural analysis converge and interact.