Jana Sawicki
Biographic Data
| ID | 292750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jana Sawicki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jana |
| FAMILY NAME | Sawicki |
| SIGNATURE | SAWICKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction Disciplining Foucault
Michel Foucault offered a slightly more optimistic view of the relationship between language and power. He would have rejected the view that the power of phallocentric discourse is total. Instead, for Foucault, discourse is ambiguous and plurivocal. It is a site of conflict and contestation. The telling of stories like authors has often been reserved for informal conversations among feminists struggling to define a sense of place in the academy w…
Feminism and the Power of Foucauldian Discourse
Is Foucauldian feminism a contradiction in terms? I would not have thought so. After all, Foucault and feminists both focus upon sexuality as a key arena of political struggle. Both expand the domain of the “political” to include forms of social domination associated with the personal sphere. And both launch critiques against forms of biological determinism, and humanism. Finally, both are skeptical of the human sciences insofar as the latter hav…
Foucault and Feminism
The recent intensification of feminist attention to the differences among women might be understood as a reaction to the emergence of a body of feminist theory which attempts to represent women as a whole on the basis of little information about the diversity of women’s experiences, to develop universal categories for analyzing women’s oppression, and, on the basis of such analysis, to identify the most important struggles. The aim of this chapte…
Identity Politics and Sexual Freedom
Ann Ferguson offers a useful sketch of the two paradigms of sexual freedom that inform the sexuality debates. According to Ferguson, radical feminists assert that Sexual freedom requires the sexual equality of partners and their equal respect for one another as both subject and body. Indeed, a more careful look reveals two distinct versions of repression, which author will refer to as the traditional repressive hypothesis and the social construct…
Disciplining Mothers
In contrast to the often sporadic, violent power over a relatively anonymous social body exercised under older, monarchical forms of power, biopower emerges as an apparently benevolent, but peculiarly invasive and effective form of social control. It evolved in two basic and inter-related forms. One of these, disciplinary power, is a knowledge of and power over the individual body-its capacities, gestures, movements, location, and behaviors. Oste…
Foucault and Feminism
Feminist appropriations of Foucault have resulted in path-breaking and provocative social and cultural criticism. Original analyses of anorexia nervosa, the social construction of femininity, female sexual desire, sexual liberation, the politics of needs and the politics of differences have changed the landscape of feminist theory. Analyzing the power relations governing the production and dissemination of discourses was, of course, one of Foucau…
Round Table Discussion with Lynne Huffer, Steven Ogden, Paul Patton, and Jana Sawicki
Joanna Crosby and Dianna Taylor: The theme of this special section of Foucault Studies, “Foucauldian Spaces,” emerged out of the 2016 meeting of the Foucault Circle, where the four of you were participants. Each of the three individual papers contained in the special section critically deploys and/or reconceptualizes an aspect of Foucault’s work that engages and offers particular insight into the construction, experience, and utilization of space…
Let's Not Split
Book Review| June 01 2015 Let's Not Split: Huffer's Queer Feminism Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex. Huffer, Lynne. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. ix + 246 pp. Jana Sawicki Jana Sawicki Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 453–455. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2843311 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review S…
A Companion to Foucault
Queer Feminism
Occupying an eccentric position with respect to critical theories, Foucault prefigures a queer critical thought and practice. In this paper I make a case for the continuing importance of Foucault for rethinking feminism within the context of neoliberal governmentality despite continuing skepticism about the value of his ethical writings. I draw not only upon the work of Foucault, but also that of queer feminist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Queering Freedom. Shannon Winnubst. Bloomington
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Queering Foucault and the Subject of Feminism
Each of my works is part of my own biography.I've always conceived of [my books] as direct experiences aimed at pulling myself free of myself, at preventing me from being the same.I don't write for an audience. I write for users, not readers.Critique doesn't have to be the premise of a deduction which concludes: this then is what needs to be done. It should be an instrument for those who fight, those who resist and refuse what is . . . It is a ch…
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, and have become majo…
Situating the Self
Disciplining Foucault
Foucault, feminism, and questions of identity
Each of my works is part of my own biography.The main interest in life is to become someone else that you were not at the beginning. . . . The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.- Michel Foucault
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Michel Foucault, one of the most important of contemporary…
Disciplining Foucault
In this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory. She expands discussion of feminism and sexual liberation, charts the impact of Foucault on humanistic studies, and picks up an aspect of the mothering theme, the question of new reproductive technologies
Heidegger and Foucault
Foucault and Feminism
This paper begins with the assumption that the differences among women pose a threat to building a unified feminist theory and practice. Utilizing the work and methods of Michel Foucault, I explore theoretical and practical implications of taking difference seriously. I claim that a politics of difference puts into question the concept of a revolutionary subject and the idea of a social totality. In the final section a brief Foucauldian analysis …
Disciplining Foucault
In this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory. She expands discussion of feminism and sexual liberation, charts the impact of Foucault on humanistic studies, and picks up an aspect of the mothering theme, the question of new reproductive technologies
Foucault and Feminism
This paper begins with the assumption that the differences among women pose a threat to building a unified feminist theory and practice. Utilizing the work and methods of Michel Foucault, I explore theoretical and practical implications of taking difference seriously. I claim that a politics of difference puts into question the concept of a revolutionary subject and the idea of a social totality. In the final section a brief Foucauldian analysis …
Queer Feminism
Occupying an eccentric position with respect to critical theories, Foucault prefigures a queer critical thought and practice. In this paper I make a case for the continuing importance of Foucault for rethinking feminism within the context of neoliberal governmentality despite continuing skepticism about the value of his ethical writings. I draw not only upon the work of Foucault, but also that of queer feminist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Round Table Discussion with Lynne Huffer, Steven Ogden, Paul Patton, and Jana Sawicki
Joanna Crosby and Dianna Taylor: The theme of this special section of Foucault Studies, “Foucauldian Spaces,” emerged out of the 2016 meeting of the Foucault Circle, where the four of you were participants. Each of the three individual papers contained in the special section critically deploys and/or reconceptualizes an aspect of Foucault’s work that engages and offers particular insight into the construction, experience, and utilization of space…
Foucault and Feminism
This paper begins with the assumption that the differences among women pose a threat to building a unified feminist theory and practice. Utilizing the work and methods of Michel Foucault, I explore theoretical and practical implications of taking difference seriously. I claim that a politics of difference puts into question the concept of a revolutionary subject and the idea of a social totality. In the final section a brief Foucauldian analysis …
Heidegger and Foucault
Disciplining Foucault
In this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory. She expands discussion of feminism and sexual liberation, charts the impact of Foucault on humanistic studies, and picks up an aspect of the mothering theme, the question of new reproductive technologies
Disciplining Foucault
Foucault, feminism, and questions of identity
Each of my works is part of my own biography.The main interest in life is to become someone else that you were not at the beginning. . . . The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.- Michel Foucault
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Michel Foucault, one of the most important of contemporary…
Situating the Self
Queering Foucault and the Subject of Feminism
Each of my works is part of my own biography.I've always conceived of [my books] as direct experiences aimed at pulling myself free of myself, at preventing me from being the same.I don't write for an audience. I write for users, not readers.Critique doesn't have to be the premise of a deduction which concludes: this then is what needs to be done. It should be an instrument for those who fight, those who resist and refuse what is . . . It is a ch…
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, and have become majo…
Queering Freedom. Shannon Winnubst. Bloomington
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Companion to Foucault
Queer Feminism
Occupying an eccentric position with respect to critical theories, Foucault prefigures a queer critical thought and practice. In this paper I make a case for the continuing importance of Foucault for rethinking feminism within the context of neoliberal governmentality despite continuing skepticism about the value of his ethical writings. I draw not only upon the work of Foucault, but also that of queer feminist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Let's Not Split
Book Review| June 01 2015 Let's Not Split: Huffer's Queer Feminism Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex. Huffer, Lynne. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. ix + 246 pp. Jana Sawicki Jana Sawicki Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 453–455. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2843311 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review S…
Round Table Discussion with Lynne Huffer, Steven Ogden, Paul Patton, and Jana Sawicki
Joanna Crosby and Dianna Taylor: The theme of this special section of Foucault Studies, “Foucauldian Spaces,” emerged out of the 2016 meeting of the Foucault Circle, where the four of you were participants. Each of the three individual papers contained in the special section critically deploys and/or reconceptualizes an aspect of Foucault’s work that engages and offers particular insight into the construction, experience, and utilization of space…
Introduction Disciplining Foucault
Michel Foucault offered a slightly more optimistic view of the relationship between language and power. He would have rejected the view that the power of phallocentric discourse is total. Instead, for Foucault, discourse is ambiguous and plurivocal. It is a site of conflict and contestation. The telling of stories like authors has often been reserved for informal conversations among feminists struggling to define a sense of place in the academy w…
Feminism and the Power of Foucauldian Discourse
Is Foucauldian feminism a contradiction in terms? I would not have thought so. After all, Foucault and feminists both focus upon sexuality as a key arena of political struggle. Both expand the domain of the “political” to include forms of social domination associated with the personal sphere. And both launch critiques against forms of biological determinism, and humanism. Finally, both are skeptical of the human sciences insofar as the latter hav…
Foucault and Feminism
The recent intensification of feminist attention to the differences among women might be understood as a reaction to the emergence of a body of feminist theory which attempts to represent women as a whole on the basis of little information about the diversity of women’s experiences, to develop universal categories for analyzing women’s oppression, and, on the basis of such analysis, to identify the most important struggles. The aim of this chapte…
Identity Politics and Sexual Freedom
Ann Ferguson offers a useful sketch of the two paradigms of sexual freedom that inform the sexuality debates. According to Ferguson, radical feminists assert that Sexual freedom requires the sexual equality of partners and their equal respect for one another as both subject and body. Indeed, a more careful look reveals two distinct versions of repression, which author will refer to as the traditional repressive hypothesis and the social construct…
Disciplining Mothers
In contrast to the often sporadic, violent power over a relatively anonymous social body exercised under older, monarchical forms of power, biopower emerges as an apparently benevolent, but peculiarly invasive and effective form of social control. It evolved in two basic and inter-related forms. One of these, disciplinary power, is a knowledge of and power over the individual body-its capacities, gestures, movements, location, and behaviors. Oste…
Foucault and Feminism
Feminist appropriations of Foucault have resulted in path-breaking and provocative social and cultural criticism. Original analyses of anorexia nervosa, the social construction of femininity, female sexual desire, sexual liberation, the politics of needs and the politics of differences have changed the landscape of feminist theory. Analyzing the power relations governing the production and dissemination of discourses was, of course, one of Foucau…
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