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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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