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Bodies & Pleasures Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization

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ISBN-10: 0253213258

ISBN-13: 9780253213259

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ladelle McWhorter

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Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereotypes by which the forces of normalization hold us and judge us. In Bodies and Pleasures, Ladelle McWhorter reads Foucault from an original and personal angle, motivated by the differences this experience has made in her life. At the same time, her analysis advances discussion of key issues in Foucault scholarship: the genealogical critique, the status of the subject and humanism, essentialism versus social construction, and the relationships between identity, community, and political action. Weaving her own experience of coming to grips with her lesbian sexual identity into her readings of…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Ladelle McWhorter is the James Thomas Professor of Philosophy and Professor of the Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Program at the University of Richmond. She is author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (IUP, 1999).

Abbreviations
Introduction: Foucault's Impact: Challenges and Transformations
Views from the Site of Political Oppression: Or, How I served as an Anchor Point for Power and Emerged as a Locus of Resistance
Genealogical Diversions: Wherein the Ascetic Priestess Loses Her Way and Begins to Wander Aimlessly Through Dem Ole Cotton Fields Back Home
Why I Shouldn't Like Foucault . . . So They Say
Disorientation: Or, Beyond Sex-Desire
Natural Bodies: Or, Ain't Nobody Here But Us Deviants
Self-Overcoming Through Ascetic Pleasures
Counterattack: An Ethics of Style Inconclusion
Notes
Index