The Discourse of Power. michael foucault: history of sexuality & crime and punishment
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eorized as performative, we become less dependent upon essentialist ontological categories and, at least theoretically, we can initiate a more radical approach into the nature of the individual sexed and gendered subject. "One Is Not Born a Woman" establishes a link between the denial of the 'natural' category of "woman" and the possibility for a feminist political movement in which women, as a class, fight for one another and for the destruction of sex categories (121).
eorized as performative, we become less dependent upon essentialist ontological categories and, at least theoretically, we can initiate a more radical approach into the nature of the individual sexed and gendered subject. "One Is Not Born a Woman" establishes a link between the denial of the 'natural' category of "woman" and the possibility for a feminist political movement in which women, as a class, fight for one another and for the destruction of sex categories (121).