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Foucault, the Family and Politics R. Duschinsky

Foucault, the Family and Politics By R. Duschinsky

Foucault, the Family and Politics by R. Duschinsky


Summary

Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as attending school, going to work and staying healthy are organized through the family. The book includes an essay by Foucault, Les desordres des familles , translated here in English for the first time.

Foucault, the Family and Politics Summary

Foucault, the Family and Politics by R. Duschinsky

Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as attending school, going to work and staying healthy are organized through the family. The book includes an essay by Foucault, Les desordres des familles , translated here in English for the first time.

About R. Duschinsky

VIKKI BELL Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK TERRELL CARVER Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK GILLIAN HARKINS Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA THIBAUD HARROIS Lecturer in French at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK REMI LENOIR Professor of Sociology at Universite de Paris I, France KATHERINE LOGAN Doctoral candidate at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA JOSE LUIS MORENO PESTANA Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cadiz, Spain VERONIQUE MOTTIER Fellow and Director of Studies in Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK DEBORAH THOM Fellow and Director of Studies for the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies at Robinson College, Cambridge, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Problem of the Family in Foucault's Work; R.Duschinsky & L.Rocha PART I: EXPOSITIONS Foucault and the Family: Deepening the Account of History of Sexuality Volume 1; R.Lenoir & R.Duschinsky Foucault's Familial Scenes: Kangaroos, Crystals, Continence and Oracles; V.Bell Foucault, the Modern Mother, and Maternal Power: Notes Toward a Genealogy of the Mother; K.Logan Foucault, the Family, and the Cold Monster of Neoliberalism; G.Harkins PART II: EVALUATIONS Jacques Donzelot's The Policing of Families (1977) in Context; J.M.Pestana (Translated from Spanish by Judith Glueck) Gender, Reproductive Politics, and the Liberal State: Beyond Foucault; V.Mottier Foucault, the Family, and History: 'Imaginary Landscape and Real Social Structure'; D.Thom 'Presentation', Le Desordre des familles: Lettres de cachet des Archives de la Bastille (1982); A.Farge & M.Foucault (Translated from French by Leon Antonio Rocha and Thibaud Harrois) 'That Dazzling, Momentary Wake' of the lettre de cachet: The Problem of Experience in Foucault's Practice of History; L.Rocha Afterword: Foucault's Family Resemblances; T.Carver

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NPB9780230348479
9780230348479
0230348475
Foucault, the Family and Politics by R. Duschinsky
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2012-12-15
243
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