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Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory
Lynne Huffer
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Hardback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 5S; DSB; HPCF7; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In this earlier volume, Foucault recasts Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviants, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality. By reclaiming these deft moves, Lynne Huffer teases ... Read more
Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In this earlier volume, Foucault recasts Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviants, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality. By reclaiming these deft moves, Lynne Huffer teases ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231149181
SKU
V9780231149181
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About Lynne Huffer
Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University and author of Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex; Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference; and Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing.
Reviews for Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory
[A] provocative and thoughtful book.
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