Power, Body, and Self (Foucault and Feminist Literary Criticism)

Author: Huang Hua
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Features: Foucault's thought has had an undeniable impact on contemporary humanities, including feminist Bush, especially on postmodern feminism. From the perspective of feminist criticism, studying Foucault's theories, particularly his discourse theory, power theory, and sex theory, can be said to be a brand-new topic. This book starts with the debates that took place within Western feminism in the late 20th century regarding Foucault's thought, systematically discussing the theoretical characteristics of different stages of Foucault's thought and the criticism, transformation, and utilization of his thought by feminist scholars. The book has an innovative structure and clever design, metaphorizing the two sides of the debate as dialogues, with the beginning, climax, and extension of the dialogue running throughout the book. Against the backdrop of the transformation of contemporary Western literary theory, it highlights the trajectory of the evolution of feminist theory.