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Up against Foucault : explorations of some tensions between Foucault and feminism / edited by Caroline Ramazanoglu.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Feminist theory.
- Feminism.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Questions of sexuality and power were central to Foucault's writing - yet Foucault largely ignored feminism. This book considers the implications of his work for feminism - and of feminism for his work.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Productive contradictions; Practices of freedom; Foucault, feminism and feeling: what Foucault can and cannot contribute to feminist epistemology; Foucauldian feminism: contesting bodies, sexuality and identity; Feminism, difference and discourse: the limits of discursive analysis for feminism; Dancing with Foucault: feminism and power-knowledge; Feminism, Foucault and the politics of the body; Violence, power and pleasure: a revisionist reading of Foucault from the victim perspective
- Women's sexuality and men's appropriation of desireName index; Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-264) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-94328-8
- 0-203-40868-3
- 1-280-32229-2
- 1-134-94329-6
- 0-203-32239-8
- 9780203408681
- OCLC:
- 61516387
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