num_pages: 240
description: Addressing central questions in the debate about Foucault s usefulness for politics, including his rejection of universal norms, his conception of power and power-knowledge, his seemingly contradictory position on subjectivity and his resistance to using identity as a political category, McLaren argues that Foucault employs a conception of embodied subjectivity that is well-suited for feminism. She applies Foucault s notion of practices of the self to contemporary feminist practices, such as consciousness-raising and autobiography, and concludes that the connection between self-transformation and social transformation that Foucault theorizes as the connection between subjectivity and institutional and social norms is crucial for contemporary feminist theory and politics."
language: English
title: Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
titlecomplete: Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
ratings_count: 10
publisher: State University of New York Press