Foucauldian Feminism: the Implications of Governmentality

Macleod, Catriona; Durrheim, Kevin

doi:10.1111/1468-5914.00175

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“…The ways in which the different systems of dichotomies work together and interact are highly complex, and one does not merely enforce the other. Especially feminist thinkers (Asante 1980;Brittan and Maynard 1984;Chodorow 1978;Collins 1986;Derrida 1976Derrida , 1978Hooks 1984;Macleod and Durrheim 2002), along with many others, highlighted that a dualistic order is systematically present in all factors of domination. Derrida has also pointed to the use of dichotomies in Western thinking, whereby a concept's meaning is also established through the meanings that are placed upon its 'counterpart' (Derrida 1976(Derrida , 1978Macleod 2002).…”

Section: On the Power Of Discoursesmentioning

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The Reverse Side of the Medal: About the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the Beautification of the N2 in Cape Town

Newton

2009

Urban Forum

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This paper aims to show the reverse side of the (football) medal. The N2 gateway project in Cape Town is presented, by government and media, as a 'flagship' project of the new Breaking New Ground strategy, to fight the housing backlog of 400,000 houses in the city. But I want to argue that the fast-tracking of the project has to be understood as a beautification strategy to prepare the city for 2010. Massive slum eradication and the construction of 'beautiful formal housing opportunities' between the airport and the mother city are becoming a painful reminder of the forced removals under the apartheid regime.

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Section: On the Power Of Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Reverse Side of the Medal: About the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the Beautification of the N2 in Cape Town

Newton

2009

Urban Forum

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“…125 This description refers to the point at which the individual mother has successfully begun to exercise vigilance with regard to her own behaviour and, as such, the body of the Lancashire working-class woman became an important site of reform. 126 Here, the individual concerned has internalised disciplinary norms and acts in relation to them, in what Dean would describe as a process of 'enlisting', or ethical self-formation. 127 This quote also briefly mentions the way in which the father is also drawn into processes of self-formation.…”

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Governmentality and the maternal body: infant mortality in early twentieth-century Lancashire

Moore

2013

Journal of Historical Geography

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“…To a certain extent, according to Sawicki (1991) and Macleod and Durrheim (2002), Foucault addresses this, albeit indirectly, by proposing the subtle, persuasive and seductive, rather than coercive, nature of productive power in its shaping of behaviour. Indeed, it was a detailed study of this process that Foucault undertook in his later writings, setting out to analyse the discursive practices through which individuals were incited towards conduct upon their own bodies and souls in order to ‘cultivate the self’ (Foucault 1986, 39).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework Of the Study: Foucault And Productive mentioning

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Productive power and the ‘practices of the self’ in contraceptive counselling

Hayter

2006

Nursing Inquiry

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This paper explores an under-researched issue within the reproductive health of women - the discursive construction of self-examination instruction in sexual health clinics. The study utilises Foucault's work on 'productive power', the 'practices of the self' and discourse to map out how nurses instruct contraceptive-using women in self-care practices. Forty-nine consultations in sexual health clinics were tape recorded and analysed. The data reveal how nurses utilise the discourse of risk as a technique to reinforce and develop self-care practices - a concept congruent with the Greco-Roman concept of the cura sui, the philosophical notion that one must make oneself into the object of care. Nurses build upon the notion of risk by educating women about their reproductive anatomy and physiology utilising medical texts as tools. This provides a contemporary example of the mia chora: identified by Foucault as the incitement for the individual to develop a usable knowledge of the body. Lastly, nurses instruct women in the development of a self-care regimen - the epimeleia, the development of habitual body techniques. It is proposed that this process is congruent with the Aristotelian notion of habitus, the development of body knowledge, body techniques and self-care practices necessary to pursue health.

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Foucauldian Feminism: the Implications of Governmentality

Cited by 62 publications

References 21 publications

The Reverse Side of the Medal: About the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the Beautification of the N2 in Cape Town

The Reverse Side of the Medal: About the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the Beautification of the N2 in Cape Town

Governmentality and the maternal body: infant mortality in early twentieth-century Lancashire

Productive power and the ‘practices of the self’ in contraceptive counselling

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