Foucault And Feminist Literary Criticism

The feminism has had big changes under the postmodern circumstances,the feminism's attention with Foucault is related to its immediately situation. The feminism under the postmodern linguistic environment cannot leave the way of postmodern thinking, Foucault has the indissoluble bond with the feminism,mainly because his way of thinking,the way of thinking that he endeavor to liberate from all traditional fetter,including his method of archaeology. This article take the inside argument about Foucault in feminism as a turning point, comment Foucault's thought based on the standpoint of feminism,centers on two attention point of Foucault's thought,the discourse,the power and the body, elaborate the theory characteristic of Foucault's thought and the feminist's criticism,transformation and use about Foucault's thought. In other words, it takes Foucault's theory on discourse,power and body as the conjunction spot, pursues origination, theory value, practical significance of some feminism's theories from Foucault, feminist utilize it as a ponder method and the question spirit, see the future development direction of feminism from another angle perspective.This article mainly inspect the relations between Foucault and the feminism from power/body theory, utilize Foucault's theory critically, analyze some cultural phenomenon on the women's bodies from two main attention right and the body, it proposes the unique feminism viewpoint standing in the feminism's standpoint, opens the new theory vision regarding the feminism's development in the new time,it also causes the feminist theory to derive the new theory resources,and overcomes its omen theory difficulty position unceasingly, at the same time, it develops to a deeper direction, and maintains the huge tolerance and the exuberant vitality throughout, This article mainly has four parts,first second part and the third part discussed Foucault's discourse theory,power theory and body theory separately, as well as the feminism's absorption and profiting from this theory. The third part is an innovative part, elaborates some new viewpoints and the view about the relation of Foucault and feminism on the base of the front elaboration.