Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 11:10:26 -0500 (CDT) From: schrift-AT-AC.GRIN.EDU (Alan Schrift) Subject: Re: Foucault and feminism? > > >On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Pia Livia Hekanaho wrote: > >> In Bodies That Matter Butler still uses foucauldian >> "methodology" but the lacanian themes are very strong, too. (And in my >> opinion she succeeds very well in combining these two strategies.) >> Absolutely worth studying! >> Livia >> >Susan Bordo offers an interesting critique of Butler's use of Foucauldian >theory in "Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern Bodies" a review essay on >Gender Trouble, hooks' Yearning, and Flax's Thinking Fragments in the >Spring 1992 issue of Feminist Studies 18 (1) pages 159-175. > >This is the only article I've been able to find which offers a strong >negative critique of Butler's conception of the body (not including >various articles which refer to the problems of social construction >theory for feminism.) > >Does anyone have any other references which critique or even mention >Butler's BTM? Has anyone seen any articles applying "Butler" to literary >studies? >I'm very intrigued by her theory of the performative >(parody and miming) and am looking for other references to it. Irigaray >also addresses it and in film theory there's been some work done on >the masquerade. Anything else anyone is aware of? > >I'd really appreciate the info! > >peace >beth >bdroppl-AT-grove.ufl.edu > > > >----------------------- End forwarded message ----------------------- > Beth, Excuse the self-reference, but I discuss Butler--favorably (mostly GT, but also a little on BTM)--in the context of Foucault in the 2nd chapter of my _Nietzsche's French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism_ (Routledge, 1995). In brief, I argue that the Foucauldian project of constructing a multiple subject--itself a Nietzschean project of sorts--is left unfinished in Foucault's own work, but I suggest that we see two forms in which it might be developed in Butler and Laclau/Mouffe. Alan D. Schrift Department of Philosophy Grinnell College
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