Does any1 share de Lauretis'(1987) opinion that ...
--------
QUOTE ON
--------
"(...) there may be some discrepancy between Foucault's theory and radical
politics (...)In Foucault, the effect of that discrepancy (...)has prompted
charges of "paradoxical conservatism".
=46or example, his political stance on the issue of rape, in the context of
the reform of criminal law in France, has been criticized by French
feminists as more subtly pernicious than the traditional, "naturalist"
ideology. Arguing for the decriminalization (and the desexualization) of
rape, in a volume published in 1977 by the Change collective with the title
"La folie encercl=E9e" Foucault proposed that rape should be treated as an
act of violence like any other, an act of aggression rather than a sexual
act."
--------
QUOTE OFF
--------
(1987, 36-7)
i have checked and found out, EN EFFET, that Foucault said:
--------
QUOTE ON
--------
"on peut toujours tenir le discours theorique qui consiste a dire: de toute
facon la sexualite ne peut en aucun cas etre objet de punition. Et quand on
punit le viol on doit punir exclusivement la violence physique. Et dire que
ce n'est rien de plus qu'une agression, et rien d'autre: que l'on foute son
coup
de poing dans la gueule de quelqu'un, ou son penis dans le sexe, cela
n'appelle pas de difference...Mais primo ((my comment:site of ambiguity)):
je ne suis pas sur que les femmes seraient d'accord...
--------
QUOTE OFF
--------
Should we define rape as a sexual offense or as a criminal assault?
cyuma.
--------
QUOTE ON
--------
"(...) there may be some discrepancy between Foucault's theory and radical
politics (...)In Foucault, the effect of that discrepancy (...)has prompted
charges of "paradoxical conservatism".
=46or example, his political stance on the issue of rape, in the context of
the reform of criminal law in France, has been criticized by French
feminists as more subtly pernicious than the traditional, "naturalist"
ideology. Arguing for the decriminalization (and the desexualization) of
rape, in a volume published in 1977 by the Change collective with the title
"La folie encercl=E9e" Foucault proposed that rape should be treated as an
act of violence like any other, an act of aggression rather than a sexual
act."
--------
QUOTE OFF
--------
(1987, 36-7)
i have checked and found out, EN EFFET, that Foucault said:
--------
QUOTE ON
--------
"on peut toujours tenir le discours theorique qui consiste a dire: de toute
facon la sexualite ne peut en aucun cas etre objet de punition. Et quand on
punit le viol on doit punir exclusivement la violence physique. Et dire que
ce n'est rien de plus qu'une agression, et rien d'autre: que l'on foute son
coup
de poing dans la gueule de quelqu'un, ou son penis dans le sexe, cela
n'appelle pas de difference...Mais primo ((my comment:site of ambiguity)):
je ne suis pas sur que les femmes seraient d'accord...
--------
QUOTE OFF
--------
Should we define rape as a sexual offense or as a criminal assault?
cyuma.