1st Edition

Disciplining Foucault Feminism, Power, and the Body

By Jana Sawicki Copyright 1991
    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory. She expands discussion of feminism and sexual liberation, charts the impact of Foucault on humanistic studies, and picks up an aspect of the mothering theme, the question of new reproductive technologies.

    Acknowledgments Note on the text -- Introduction. Disciplining Foucault: -- Personal Reflections1. Foucault and Feminism: -- Toward a Politics of Difference -- 2. Identity Politics and Sexual Freedom -- 3. Feminism and the Power of Foucauldian Discourse: Foucault and Mothering Theory -- 4. Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies -- 5. Foucault and Feminism: -- A Critical Reappraisal -- Notes -- Index --

    Biography

    Jana Sawicki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Williams College.