Margaret Mclaren
Biographic Data
| ID | 3899148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Mclaren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclaren |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAREN M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Biopolitics and Reproductive Injustice
Sexuality plays a central role in Foucault's philosophy, from his four volume series on the topic to his ideas about medicalization, biopower, and the abnormal. Many of Foucault's concepts, such as governmentality, biopower, and biopolitics, are useful for analyzing the effects of laws and policies regulating reproduction and sexuality. This article brings Foucault's ideas to bear on two aspects of sexuality, reproduction and trans health care, t…
A Feminist Social Justice Approach for Social Change
This article extends and develops themes from my book, Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice, in response to commentary by Professors Aragon and Nagel. In my remarks I explore what I call “the tricky territory of rights,” as well as feminism, identity, intersectionality, heterogeneity, and complexity, and alternative epistemologies. My interlocuters and I are all skeptical about the notion of human rights for a range of reasons: rights d…
Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
Possibilities for a Nondominated Female Subjectivity
This essay examines one of the contributions that Sandra Bartky makes to feminist theory. Bartky critiques Foucault for his gender blind treatment of the disciplines and social practices that create “docile bodies.” She introduces several gender specific disciplines and practices that illustrate that the production of bodies is itself gender coded. This essay argues that social practices are not monolithic, but are composed of various strands tha…
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Possibilities for a Nondominated Female Subjectivity
This essay examines one of the contributions that Sandra Bartky makes to feminist theory. Bartky critiques Foucault for his gender blind treatment of the disciplines and social practices that create “docile bodies.” She introduces several gender specific disciplines and practices that illustrate that the production of bodies is itself gender coded. This essay argues that social practices are not monolithic, but are composed of various strands tha…
Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity
A Feminist Social Justice Approach for Social Change
This article extends and develops themes from my book, Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice, in response to commentary by Professors Aragon and Nagel. In my remarks I explore what I call “the tricky territory of rights,” as well as feminism, identity, intersectionality, heterogeneity, and complexity, and alternative epistemologies. My interlocuters and I are all skeptical about the notion of human rights for a range of reasons: rights d…
Biopolitics and Reproductive Injustice
Sexuality plays a central role in Foucault's philosophy, from his four volume series on the topic to his ideas about medicalization, biopower, and the abnormal. Many of Foucault's concepts, such as governmentality, biopower, and biopolitics, are useful for analyzing the effects of laws and policies regulating reproduction and sexuality. This article brings Foucault's ideas to bear on two aspects of sexuality, reproduction and trans health care, t…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)