Ann Stoler, in _Race and the Education of Desire_ has quite a bit to say
about this from an explicitly Foucauldian perspective.
Nate
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Patrick Cox <ptcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I'm looking for information about Foucault and "the family."
>
> Does he ever engage with "the family" as it either creates disciplined
> bodies, or how it relates to un-disciplined bodies? At the moment I think I
> recall something in Abnormal about parents and "the masturbator" and I'll
> look this up. But does he ever go into how social power exerts itself via
> the family?
>
> Does he deal with the break down of families? Does he deal with how "the
> family" might be invoked discursively as a method of discipline? Do the
> family law scholars who engage with Foucault apply him to the family?
>
>
>
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about this from an explicitly Foucauldian perspective.
Nate
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Patrick Cox <ptcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I'm looking for information about Foucault and "the family."
>
> Does he ever engage with "the family" as it either creates disciplined
> bodies, or how it relates to un-disciplined bodies? At the moment I think I
> recall something in Abnormal about parents and "the masturbator" and I'll
> look this up. But does he ever go into how social power exerts itself via
> the family?
>
> Does he deal with the break down of families? Does he deal with how "the
> family" might be invoked discursively as a method of discipline? Do the
> family law scholars who engage with Foucault apply him to the family?
>
>
>
> --
> Patrick Cox
> PhD Student
> http://camden-rutgers.academia.edu/PatrickCox
> Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University
> http://childhood.camden.rutgers.edu/
> https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/exploring_childhood_studies
> Special issue of Childhoods Today:
> http://www.childhoodstoday.org/journal.php
> Save Rutgers: http://www.r2rmerge.com/
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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Herman-Föge-Weg 11
37073 Göttingen
Germany
+49 (0) 551-4956-0