Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:54:35 +0000 (GMT) From: "S.S. Walker" <ssw11-AT-cus.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Help!! On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Ashwin Kumar wrote: > I am new to the works of Mitchel Foucault and would be most obliged for > some directions. I intend to do my MA[HONS] thesis on the social > construction of the body in 1996 as part of my Cultural Studies Degree. > How could I use the work of MF - in terms of the body? I have read > "Docile Bodies" (Rabinow:1984) and "History of SEXUALITY" Vols > 1-3(Foucault:1976,1984,1985). Are there any "good' starter books on > Foucault's work? > Regards, > akumar. > > Try Neitzsche, Genealogy, History in the Doucault Reader, some of the essays in Power/Knowledge. For secondary works - Judith Butler makes loads of use of Foucault - try chapter 3 of Gender Trouble. There has been feminist critism the Foucault ignores sexual difference, these debates are useful ways into his thinking on the body - there are several anthologies on Focault and Feminism, and Louis McNay put out a book on Foucault and Feminism (which is fairly easy but ends up with a dodgy Habamassian position). ------------------
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