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Using Foucault’s approach, outline and explore the connection between gender, power, and the body.4000 words

Post ID: 3197721

Overview

Essay Requirements:

  • Research Question: Using Foucault’s approach, outline and explore the connection between gender, power, and the body.
  • Referencing Style: Harvard is the required referencing style.
  • Formatting:
    • Line Spacing: Assessed essays should be 1.5 or double line spaced.
    • Font: Use Arial font in at least size 12.
    • Page Numbering: Every page should be numbered for easier marking and specific feedback.
  • Length: The essay should be approximately 4000 words.

May Useful References (Not Mandatory):

  • Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Penguin.
  • Bartky, S. (1988). Feminism, Foucault and the modernisation of patriarchal power. In Diamond, I. & Quinby, L. (Eds.), Feminism & Foucault: reflections on resistance.
  • Bordo, S. (1993). Unbearable weight: feminism, Western culture, and the body. University of California Press.
    1. Butler, J. 1990. Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.
      • Section 1.1 “Women” as the subject of feminism (pp.2-8)
      • Section 1.2 “The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire (pp.8-17)
      • Section 2.5 “Reformulating prohibition as power” (in particular pp. 97-105 which is a reading of Gayle Rubin)
      • Section 3.4 “Bodily inscriptions, performative inspections” (in particular pp.183-193 “from interiority to gender performances")
    2. Butler, J. 1993. Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of ‘sex’. New York: Routledge.
      • Introduction (in particular pp. xi-xx, up to but not including the section "performativity as citationality")
      • Section 1 "bodies that matter" (pp.3-6, up to but not including the section "matters of femininity")
    3. Barad, K. 2007. Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham and London: Duke University Press ‘Getting real: technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality’.
    4. Benhabib, S. 1995. Feminism and postmodernism: an uneasy alliance. In: Benhabib, S., Butler, J. Cornell, D. and Fraser, N. eds. Feminist contentions: a philosophical exchange. New York and London: Routledge.
    5. Brickell, C. 2003. Performativity or performance? Clarifications in the sociology of gender. New Zealand Sociology. 18(1), pp.158-178.
    6. Bordo, S. 1992. Postmodern subjects, postmodern bodies. Feminist Studies. 18(1), pp.159-175.
    7. Butler, J. 1988. Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory. Theatre Journal. 40(4), pp.519-531.
    8. Butler, J. 1994. Gender as performance – an interview with Judith Butler. Radical Philosophy. 67(Summer).
    9. Fraser, N. 1995. False antithesis: a response to Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler. In: Benhabib, S., Butler, J. Cornell, D. and Fraser, N. eds. Feminist contentions: a philosophical exchange. New York and London: Routledge.
    10. Mills, C. 2003. Contesting the political: Butler and Foucault on power and resistance. The Journal of Political Philosophy. 11(3), pp.253-272.
    11. Namaste, V. 2009. Undoing theory: the ‘transgender question’ and the epistemic violence of Anglo-American feminist theory. Hypatia. 24(3), pp.11-32.
    12. Nelson, L. 1999. Bodies (and spaces) do matter: the limits of performativity. Gender, Place and Culture. 6(4), pp.331-353.
    13. Nussbaum, M. 1999. The Professor of Parody: The hip, defeatist feminism of Judith Butler. The New Republic. 220(8). Available at: The New Republic
    14. Prosser, J. 1998. Second skins: the body narratives of transsexuality. New York: Columbia University Press. ‘Judith Butler: queer feminism, transgender, and the transubstantiation of sex’.
    15. Salih, S. 2002. Judith Butler. London and New York: Routledge.
    16. Schep, D. 2012. The limits of performativity: a critique of hegemony in gender theory. Hypatia. 27(4), pp.864-880.
    17. Stryker, S. 1994. My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: performing transgender rage. GLQ. 1(3), pp.237-25.
    18. West, C. and Zimmerman, D. 1987. Doing gender. Gender & Society. 1(2), pp.125-151.