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On Conflicts and Differences Among Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Abstract

Jana Sawicki uses the work and methods of Foucault to explore the possibility of a politics of difference. I argue that Foucault may help us overcome some forms of dogmatism inherited from men's political philosophy of the past, but Foucault is otherwise useless, or worse: misleading. Because Sawicki presents a politics of diversity among women regardless of, and independent from, a politics of sexual difference, I believe Foucault is misleading.

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Copyright © 1987 by Hypatia, Inc.

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