Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity - Paperback

Argues that Foucault's work employs a conception of subjectivity that is well-suited for feminist theory and politics.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: Margaret A. McLaren
• | Publisher: State University of New York Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 10, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0791455149
• | ISBN-13: 9780791455142