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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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