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Reading Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ellen K. Feder
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Abstract

Ladelle McWhorter's Bodies and Pleasures provides an unusual and important reading of Michel Foucault's later work. This response is an effort to introduce McWhorter's project and to describe the challenge it presents to engage in askesis, the transformative exercise of thinking, which McWhorter's work itself exemplifies.

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Symposium
Information
Hypatia , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , Summer 2001 , pp. 98 - 105
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by Hypatia, Inc.

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References

Foucault, Michel. 1978. The history of sexuality, volume 1: An introduction. Trans. Hurley, Robert. New York: Random House.Google Scholar
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McWhorter, Ladelle. 1999. Bodies and pleasures: Foucault and the politics of sexual normalization. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar