Penelope Deutscher: 2 books
Foucault's Futures
A Critique of Reproductive Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In Foucault's Futures, Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault's thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. She brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to challenge our understanding of the politicization of reproduction. By analyzing...
Yielding Gender
Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with masculinity and subsequent debates have been framed by this assumption. Yet recent debates in deconstruction have shown that gender has never been a stable matter. In the history of philosophy 'female'...