discourses of class intersect with the gendered discipline of girls in secure care. Secure care can be understood as a site in which repressive and productive forms of power meet to produce subjects (Foucault [1974]1987). Such a theoretical perspective
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Colette Slagle
discursively created across many context-specific sites. Drawing from Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge , she examines both media constructions and girls’ own constructions of such a girl. The book is a multisite, interdisciplinary study that works to
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The Construction of Gender in a Rural Scottish School
Fiona G. Menzies and Ninetta Santoro
position to occupy rather than a fixed role” ( McRae 1996: 242 ). We draw here on the work of Foucault (1974 , 1980 , 1981 ) and Judith Butler (1990 , 2004) to offer insight into how and why pupils take up gendered positions in school. Of particular
Kaoru Miyazawa
citizenship ( Weeks 1998 ). At the same time, in the history of modern nation-states, as Foucault pointed out (see Davidson 2008 ; Dreyfus and Rabinow 1983 ), sexuality has also been the major site in which biopower has operated to regulate citizens
April Mandrona
Saba Mahmood who extends Michel Foucault’s theorizing. In her reading of Foucault, for example, Mahmood writes, Foucault distinguished ethical practices from ‘morals,’ reserving the latter to refer to sets of norms, rules, values, and injunctions
Wandelnde Horizonte des Weltwissens
Zur Raumvorstellung der elementaren Geographieschulbücher des Japanischen Kaiserreichs
Toshiko Ito
Raum, der die Vormoderne und die Moderne in eins verschmelzen lässt Es ist ein halbes Jahrhundert her, dass Michel Foucault das 20. Jahrhundert als das Jahrhundert des Raums bezeichnete. 1 Seit Foucaults Denkanstoß entfaltet sich ein
Gargi Gangopadhyay
, Chhelebelar Dinguli , 30. 40 Chakraborty, Chhelebelar Dinguli , 31–32. 41 Sunirmal Basu, Jiban Khatar Koyek Pata [Some leaves from the book of my life] (Calcutta: Orient Book Company, 1955), 52. 42 Foucault defines “heterotopia” as a physical place
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Girls Cultivating Disruption
Crystal Leigh Endsley
different version of success. Social institutions like family and school consume large portions of girls’ lives, often working to ensure that they are read in disempowering ways while managing them accordingly (see Foucault 1980 ). These relationships are
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Michele Meek
: a Memoir in Books .” Women’s Studies 43 ( 1 ): 52 – 72 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2014.852422 . 10.1080/00497878.2014.852422 Hocquenghem , Guy , Michel Foucault , and Jean Danet . 1988 . “ Sexual Morality and the Law .” In
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and Lennard Davis . Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan . 10.1057/9781137023001_17 Gannon , Susanne , and Marnina Gonick ( 2014 ). “ ‘Choir Practice’ in Three Movements: Analyzing a Story of Girlhood through Deleuze, Butler, and Foucault .” Pp