File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2001/foucault.0104, message 81


From: Rebecca Moskow <rmoskow-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: So what do writers express today?
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:19:01 -0500



>Hi Rebecca,
>Can you shortly explain whats the critics of the
>fiminsm on Foucault?
NOt really, not yet- I'm still reading the  man himself , but my study was 
prompted by the multitudinous references to Foucault re. power in feminist 
theory and queer theory, which I think boils down to this: if, as Foucault 
proposes, power is interactive and relational and productive rather than 
simply cumulative and repressive, then the basic paradox of feminism (women 
are oppressed and powerless/women have the power to fight oppression and 
powerlessness) is unraveled and, despite Foucault's treatment or lack 
thereof of individual agency, oppressed classes, indeed any subject, can act 
with intentionality and effect change.  Or something like that.
Rebecca
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