Feminism Foucault And Embodied Subjectivity
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Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
Author | : Margaret A. McLaren |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0791487938 |
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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.