Disciplining Foucault : feminism, power, and the body / Jana Sawicki.

By:

Sawicki, Jana [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Thinking genderPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1991Description: xiii, 130 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415901871
9780415901871
041590188X
9780415901888

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.4201 23

LOC classification:

HQ1190 .S28 1991

Contents:

Foucault and feminism : toward a politics of difference -- Identity politics and sexual freedom -- Feminism and the power of Foucauldian discourse : Foucault and mothering theory -- Disciplining mothers : feminism and the new reproductive technologies -- Foucault and feminism : a critical reappraisal.

Summary: "Arguing that a Foucauldian feminism is possible, Sawicki rejects the view that the power of the phallocentric is total. Instead, like Foucault, she sees discouse as ambiguous and a source of conflict."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-126) and index.

"Arguing that a Foucauldian feminism is possible, Sawicki rejects the view that the power of the phallocentric is total. Instead, like Foucault, she sees discouse as ambiguous and a source of conflict."--Publisher description.

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