The ethics of foucauldian poetics: Women's selves

New Literary History

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 491-505

  Wolosky, Shira ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 60950475521     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2004.0047     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Foucault himself interestingly discusses Augustinian will and autonomy, in Ethics, ed. Paul Rabinow, trans. Robert Hurley, vol. 1, Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (London: Penguin, 1997), 181 (hereafter cited in text as E)
2. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage, 19/9), 136-39 (hereafter cited in text as DP)
3. Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge, ed. and trans. Colin Gordon (New York: Prentice Hall, 1980), 192 (hereafter cited in text as PK)
4. This, of course, has been much discussed by feminist theorists, such as Linda Alcoff in "Feminism and Foucault: The Limits to a Collaboration," Crises in Continental Philosophy, ed. Arlene Daller)7 and Charles Scott (New York: State University of New York Press, 1990), 69-86
5. As Sandra Lee Bartky puts it, "Foucault treats the body throughout as if it were one, as if the bodily experiences of men and women did not differ and as if men and women bore the same relationship to the characteristic institutions of modern life.... [But] disciplinary practices engender [women's] bodies more docile than the bodies of men." "Foucault, Femininity, and Patriarchal Power," Feminism and Foucault, ed. Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby (Boston: Northeastern, 1988), 64; see also 61-86
6. See the discussions in Foucault: A Critical Reader, ed. David Couzens Hoy (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986). Foucault does not show much interest or confidence in electoral politics or democratic participation; he writes, "The phenomenon of the social body is the effect not of a consensus but of the materiality of power operating on the very bodies of individuals"
7. (Power/Knowledge 55)
8. Isaac Balbus, "Disciplining Women: Michel Foucault and the Power of Feminist Discourse," Feminism as Critique, ed. Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell (Oxford: Polity Press, 1987), 110-28
9. Nancy Harstock, "Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women," in Feminism/Post-Modernism, ed. Linda Nicholson (New York: Routledge, 1990), 157-73
10. Jana Sawicki, Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power and the Body (New York: Routledge, 1991)
11. Seyla Benhabib, "Feminism and Post-Modernism: An Uneasy Alliance," Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange, ed. Linda Nicholson (New York: Routledge, 1995), 17-34
12. Susan Bordo, "Feminism, Post-Modernism and Gender Skepticism," Feminism/Post-Modernism, ed. Linda Nicholson (New York, Routledge, 1990)
13. Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems (New York, Harper & Row, 1981), 155
14. Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)
15. Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity," 66, 73
16. Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power," in Michel Foucault: Beyond. Structuralism and. Hermeneutics, ed. Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 212. See also 208-26
17. Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, vol. 1, trans Robert Hurley (New York: Pantheon, 1978), 95-96 (hereafter cited in text as HS 1)
18. Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, vol. 2, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1988), 43 (hereafter cited in text as HS 2)
19. Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon, 1984), 380
20. Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 3
21. Michel Foucault, Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology, vol. 2, Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (London: Allen Lane, 1998), 339-40
22. For Foucault's abnormals, see Ethics, 51
23. See especially Judith Butler, "Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of Post-Modernism," in Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange, ed. Linda Nicholson (New York: Routledge, 1995), 35-57
24. Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice (1982; repr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993)
25. Benhabib, "Feminism and Post-Modernism," 20
26. See Barbara Johnson, "Aposüophe, Animation, and Abortion," in A World of Difference (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins LIniversity Press, 1987), 184-99