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Introduction : engaging the present
Feminism and the final Foucault (2004)
  • Dianna Taylor, John Carroll University
Abstract

Feminism and the Final Foucault is the first systematic offering of contemporary, international feminist perspectives on the later work of philosopher Michel Foucault. Rather than simply debating the merits or limitations of Foucault's later work, the essays in this collection examine women's historical self-practices, conceive of feminism as a shared ethos, and consider the political significance of this conceptualization in order to elucidate, experiment with, and put into practice the conceptual "tools" that Foucault offers for feminist ethics and politics. The volume illustrates the ways in which Foucault's later thinking on ethics as "care of the self" can reintroduce a number of issues and themes that feminists jettisoned in the wake of postmodernism, including consciousness raising, feminist therapy, the subject woman, identity politics, and feminist agency. Taken as a whole, the diversity of feminist viewpoints presented provide important new insights into "the final Foucault," and thus serve as a productive intervention in current Foucault scholarship.

Publication Date
2004
Editor
Dianna Taylor and Karen Vintges
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN
0252029275
Citation Information
Dianna Taylor. "Introduction : engaging the present" UrbanaFeminism and the final Foucault (2004)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dianna_taylor/5/