Foucault And Feminism Through Power And Body

The feminism has had big changes under the postmodern circumstances, thefeminism's attention with Foucault is related to its immediately situation. Thefeminism under the postmodern linguistic environment cannot leave the way ofpostmodern thinking, Foucault has the indissoluble bond with the feminism, mainlybecause his way of thinking, the way of thinking that he endeavor to liberate from alltraditional fetter, including his method of archaeology, genealogy. This article takethe inside argument about Foucault in feminism as a turning point, commentFoucault's thought based on the standpoint of feminism, centers on two attentionpoint of Foucault's thought, the power and the body, elaborate the theorycharacteristic of Foucault's thought and the feminist's criticism, transformation anduse about Foucault's thought. In other words, it takes Foucault's theory on power andbody as the conjunction spot, pursues origination, theory value, practical significanceof some feminism's theories from Foucault, feminist utilize it as a ponder methodand the question spirit, see the future development direction of feminism fromanother angle perspective.On the content, this article mainly inspect the relations between Foucault andthe feminism from power/body theory, utilize Foucault's theory critically, analysesome cultural phenomenon on the women's bodies from two main attention right andthe body, it proposes the unique feminism viewpoint standing in the feminism'sstandpoint, opens the new theory vision regarding the feminism's development in thenew time, it also causes the feminist theory to derive the new theory resources, andovercomes its own theory difficulty position unceasingly, at the same time, itdevelops to a deeper direction, and maintains the huge tolerance and the exuberantvitality throughout. This article mainly has three parts, first part and the second partdiscussed Foucault's power theory and body theory separately, as well as thefeminism's absorption and profiting from this theory.The third part is an innovativepart, elaborates some new viewpoints and the view about the relation of Foucault andfeminism on the base of the front elaboration. Standing in an objective and fair standpoint, the author approves the feminist'sviewpoint that the women are oppressed by the men in terms of the relation betweenFoucault and the feminism; simultaneously, because the dispute over Foucault'sthought, the author has some own shallow opinion about his thought. Any theoreticianprofits from others viewpoint and serves for own theory, the feminine principle is notexceptional. For example: Because Foucault emphasizes the absolute power and thepassive bodies excessively, it also causes the feminist emphasize constantly the gaugeto the bodily negative suppression and excessively caters to to the patriarchy forfeminine subject while utilizing his viewpoint, it has written off the feminineindependent existence, regarding the female as an initiative passive objectcompletely. We may have many kinds of way and many kinds of angle explanationmethod about Foucault's gauge thought and body concept, in this significance, theauthor proposes own viewpoint.