Margaret A. McLaren

Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791487938
• Artikelnr.: 60501130

Autorenporträt

Margaret A. McLaren is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Women's Studies at Rollins College.