Up against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions between Foucault and Feminism

by Caroline Ramazanoğlu. 272 pgs.

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Contributors:

Caroline Ramazanoğlu

Publisher:

Routledge

Place of Publication:

New York

Publication Year:

1993

Table of contents

	Contents
	Notes on contributors	vii
	1 Introduction	1
	Caroline Ramazanoğlu
	Part I Reflections on the value of Foucault’s arguments for feminism
	2 Productive contradictions	29
	Kate Soper
	3 Practices of freedom	51
	Jean Grimshaw
	4 Foucault, feminism and feeling: what Foucault can and cannot contribute to feminist epistemology	73
	Maureen Cain
	Part II Identity, difference and power
	5 Foucauldian feminism: contesting bodies, sexuality and identity	99
	M.E. Bailey
	6 Feminism, difference and discourse: the limits of discursive analysis for feminism	123
	Janet Ransom
	7 Dancing with Foucault: feminism and power-knowledge	147
	Maureen McNeil
	Part III Bodies and pleasures: power and resistance
	8 Feminism, Foucault and the politics of the body	179
	Susan Bordo
	9 Violence, power and pleasure: a revisionist reading of Foucault from the victim perspective	203
	Dean MacCannell and
	Juliet Flower MacCannell
	10 Women’s sexuality and men’s appropriation of desire	239
	Caroline Ramazanoğlu and
	Janet Holland
	Name index	265
	Subject index	267

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