Feminism Foucault and Embodied Subjec (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
Feminism Foucault and Embodied Subjec (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Margaret A McLaren
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0791455130 | 256 Pages | PDF | 1.41 MB
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0791455130 | 256 Pages | PDF | 1.41 MB
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.