Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryColumbia University Press, 5. nóv. 2009 - 304 síður Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In this earlier volume, Foucault recasts Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviants, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality. By reclaiming these deft moves, Lynne Huffer teases out exciting new strands of Foucauldian thought. She then revisits the theorist's ethical work in light of these discoveries, divining an ethics of eros that sees sexuality as a lived experience we are repeatedly called on to remember. Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason. |
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... genders. So if the etymological circuit—quer, obliquus, versus—threatens to bring us right back to where we started, the trick is to keep things turning into something other. History of Madness has much to teach us about that resistant ...
... genders. So if the etymological circuit—quer, obliquus, versus—threatens to bring us right back to where we started, the trick is to keep things turning into something other. History of Madness has much to teach us about that resistant ...
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... gender and race are virtually absent”7 from the book. And while the influence of European carceral models on the American prison system is a topic that has yet to be adequately explored, Davis highlights what Foucault ignores: namely ...
... gender and race are virtually absent”7 from the book. And while the influence of European carceral models on the American prison system is a topic that has yet to be adequately explored, Davis highlights what Foucault ignores: namely ...
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... gender and sexuality together and in the process changed American academic conceptions of identity, politics, and marginalization. That chronological moment, around 1990, was a crucial time for the paradoxical coming together as ...
... gender and sexuality together and in the process changed American academic conceptions of identity, politics, and marginalization. That chronological moment, around 1990, was a crucial time for the paradoxical coming together as ...
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... Gender Trouble (1990), was only translated into French in 2005.12 A French translation of Sedgwick's paradigm-shifting Epistemology of the Closet (1990) appeared even later, in 2008, almost twenty years after its original publication in ...
... Gender Trouble (1990), was only translated into French in 2005.12 A French translation of Sedgwick's paradigm-shifting Epistemology of the Closet (1990) appeared even later, in 2008, almost twenty years after its original publication in ...
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... Gender Trouble, that Foucault “always resisted the confessional moment.”33 But here in his description of his sexual “awakening,” his feelings of “exclusion,” and the shock of a “psychiatric threat” that would label him as “abnormal ...
... Gender Trouble, that Foucault “always resisted the confessional moment.”33 But here in his description of his sexual “awakening,” his feelings of “exclusion,” and the shock of a “psychiatric threat” that would label him as “abnormal ...
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1 How We Became Queer | 44 |
2 Queer Moralities | 87 |
3 Unraveling the Queer Psyche | 127 |
4 A Queer Nephew | 194 |
5 A Political Ethic of Eros | 242 |
Notes | 281 |
Works Cited | 313 |
Index | 325 |
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