Since when Foucault started to notice the women's existence, let alone care
about their opinions? =20
Atefeh
At 04:24 PM 6/28/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Does any1 share de Lauretis'(1987) opinion that ...
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>"(...) 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".
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>For 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."
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>(1987, 36-7)
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>i have checked and found out, EN EFFET, that Foucault said:
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>"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
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>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...
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>Should we define rape as a sexual offense or as a criminal assault?
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>cyuma.
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