Addressing central questions in the debate about Foucault's
usefulness for politics, including his rejection of universal
norms, his conception of power and power-knowledge, his seemingly
contradictory position on subjectivity and his resistance to using
identity as a political category, McLaren argues that Foucault
employs a conception of embodied subjectivity that is well-suited
for feminism. She applies Foucault's notion of practices of the
self to contemporary feminist practices, such as
consciousness-raising and autobiography, and concludes that the
connection between self-transformation and social transformation
that Foucault theorizes as the connection between subjectivity and
institutional and social norms is crucial for contemporary feminist
theory and politics.
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