From: "Stuart Elden" <stuartelden-AT-btconnect.com>
Subject: RE: the child in Foucault's writing
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:37:05 -0000


The Les Anormaux course, recently translated as Abnormal is the best source
of Foucault's own writing. It is the closest I think we will get to La
croisade des enfants, the projected third volume of the original plan, on
children. There is some interesting discussion of incest and masturbation as
twin problems, but with particular class issues associated. There is also
some interesting material in Le pouvoir psychiatrique, and a piece called
'Schizo-Culture: Infantile Sexuality' in Foucault: Live.

Vikki Bell has written some interesting work on this area from a Foucauldian
perspective. Such as

Bell,Vikki (1993): Governing Childhood. In: Economy and Society 22(3),
390-405.

Bell,Vikki (1993): Interrogating Incest: Feminism, Foucault and the Law
(Phillip Abrams Prize 1994). Routledge, London/New York. 210 + xiii pages.

http://www.gold.ac.uk/academic/soc/bell.htm

This by Bell piece, which i haven't read, looks entirely appropriate to your
work

'The Vigilant(e) Parent And The Paedophile: The News Of The World Campaign
2000 And The Contemporary Governmentality Of Child Sexual Abuse' Feminist
Theory (2002)

Good luck

Stuart