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The Discourse of Power. michael foucault: history of sexuality & crime and punishment
Title: The Discourse of Power. michael foucault: history of sexuality & crime and punishment
Category: Social Sciences / Philosophy
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The Discourse of Power. michael foucault: history of sexuality & crime and punishment
To Foucault, everything is about power
relationships. Entwined with power is knowledge so
that in every power relationship there is knowledge
and vice-versa. Foucault takes the cliché "Knowledge
is power" and revises it: the knowledge of humans
integrated with the power that acts on humans equals
power/knowledge. Consequently, power/knowledge (not a
binary opposition but an integrated construction) is
always a discursive formation and works through
language. To understand how power/knowledge works,
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…showed last 75 words of 1428 total…theorized as performative, we become
less dependent upon essentialist ontological
categories and, at least theoretically, we can
initiate a more radical approach into the nature of
the individual sexed and gendered subject. "One Is Not
Born a Woman" establishes a link between the denial of
the 'natural' category of "woman" and the possibility
for a feminist political movement in which women, as a
class, fight for one another and for the destruction
of sex categories (121).
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