Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism

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Overview

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.

Drawing upon their diverse backgrounds in social theory and philosophy, the contributors discuss the ways in which Foucault provokes feminists into questioning their grasp of power relations, and examines the implications of his decision to overlook categories of gender in his discussion of sexuality and power relations.

They also show that in spite of his lack of interest in gender, Foucault's ways of understanding the control of women and female sexuality ultimately have much to offer feminism.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415050104
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 12/2/1993
  • Pages: 288
  • Age range: 18 years
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors
1 Introduction 1
Pt. I Reflections on the value of Foucault's arguments for feminism
2 Productive contradictions 29
3 Practices of freedom 51
4 Foucault, feminism and feeling: what Foucault can and cannot contribute to feminist epistemology 73
Pt. II Identity, difference and power
5 Foucauldian feminism: contesting bodies, sexuality and identity 99
6 Feminism, difference and discourse: the limits of discursive analysis for feminism 123
7 Dancing with Foucault: feminism and power-knowledge 147
Pt. III Bodies and pleasures: power and resistance
8 Feminism, Foucault and the politics of the body 179
9 Violence, power and pleasure: a revisionist reading of Foucault from the victim perspective 203
10 Women's sexuality and men's appropriation of desire 239
Name index 265
Subject index 267
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