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Up against Foucault : explorations of some tensions between Foucault and feminism / edited by Caroline Ramazanoğlu.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1993Copyright date: ©1993Description: ix, 271 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415050103
  • 9780415050104
  • 0415050111
  • 9780415050111
Other title:
  • Explorations of some tensions between Foucault and feminism
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.4201 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1190 .U6 1993
Contents:
1. Introduction / Caroline Ramazanoglu -- Part I. Reflections on the value of Foucault's arguments for feminism : -- 2. Productive contradictions / Kate Soper -- 3. Practices of freedom / Jean Grimshaw -- 4. Foucault, feminism and feeling : what Foucault can and cannot contribute to feminist epistemology / Maureen Cain -- Part II. Identity, difference and power : -- 5. Foucauldian feminism : contesting bodies, sexuality and identity / M.E. Bailey -- 6. Feminism, difference and discourse : the limits of discursive analysis for feminism / Janet Ransom -- 7. Dancing with Foucault : feminism and power-knowledge / Maureen McNeil -- Part III. Bodies and pleasures : power and resistance : -- 8. Feminism, Foucault and the politics of the body / Susan Fordo -- 9. Violence, power and pleasure : a revisionist reading of Foucault from the victim perspective / Dean MacCannell and Juliet Flower MacCannell -- 10. Women's sexuality and men's appropriation of desire / Caroline Ramazanoǧlu and Janet Holland -- Name index -- Subject index.
Summary: "Up Against Foucault offers both a feminist critique of Foucauldian theories as well as an attempt to reconcile these seemingly irreconcilable perspectives. Feminists are often "up against Foucault" because he questions key conclusions in feminism regarding the nature of gender relations, and men's possession of power. This book, however, fills the gap in literature about Foucault by showing how his theories of sexuality and power relations are often applicable to the everyday realities of women's lives."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Caroline Ramazanoglu -- Part I. Reflections on the value of Foucault's arguments for feminism : -- 2. Productive contradictions / Kate Soper -- 3. Practices of freedom / Jean Grimshaw -- 4. Foucault, feminism and feeling : what Foucault can and cannot contribute to feminist epistemology / Maureen Cain -- Part II. Identity, difference and power : -- 5. Foucauldian feminism : contesting bodies, sexuality and identity / M.E. Bailey -- 6. Feminism, difference and discourse : the limits of discursive analysis for feminism / Janet Ransom -- 7. Dancing with Foucault : feminism and power-knowledge / Maureen McNeil -- Part III. Bodies and pleasures : power and resistance : -- 8. Feminism, Foucault and the politics of the body / Susan Fordo -- 9. Violence, power and pleasure : a revisionist reading of Foucault from the victim perspective / Dean MacCannell and Juliet Flower MacCannell -- 10. Women's sexuality and men's appropriation of desire / Caroline Ramazanoǧlu and Janet Holland -- Name index -- Subject index.

"Up Against Foucault offers both a feminist critique of Foucauldian theories as well as an attempt to reconcile these seemingly irreconcilable perspectives. Feminists are often "up against Foucault" because he questions key conclusions in feminism regarding the nature of gender relations, and men's possession of power. This book, however, fills the gap in literature about Foucault by showing how his theories of sexuality and power relations are often applicable to the everyday realities of women's lives."--Publisher's description.

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