Title: Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Feminist theory, Subjectivity, Feminism, Foucault, michel, 1926-1984