Foucault and Sexual Freedom

The European Philosophy Research Group & The Centre for the History of European Discourses present

Professor Jana Sawicki
Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Should we embrace an ethics of pleasure?
Wednesday, 7 June 2006
2.30-4pm (Space is limited and participants are asked to be seated by 2.25pm.)
CCCS Seminar Room, Forgan-Smith Tower, Level 4

Jana Sawicki is Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Williams College, a liberal arts college in Western Massachusetts, US. She is currently on leave and living in Sydney where she is a Visiting Fellow at UNSW. The author of Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power and the Body (Routledge, 1991), she is now completing a collection of essays on Foucault and queer theory.

Some of her other publications include:
* “Foucault’s Pleasures: Desexualizing Queer Politics” in Feminism and the Final Foucault (eds.) Taylor and Vintges (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
* “Queering Foucault and the Subject of Feminism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Michel Foucault, Updated and Revised Edition (ed.) Gary Gutting (Cambridge U. Press, 2005)
* “Foucault, Michel,” Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, ed. Alan Soble (Greenwood Press, 2006)
* “Le Feminism et Foucault en Amerique du Nord: Convergence, critique, possibilite” (trans. from English by Colette Pratt), in Aux risques de Foucault (Paris: Supplementaires, 1997).
* “Feminism, Foucault, and “Subjects” of Power and Freedom,” in Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault. Ed. Susan Hekman. Penn State University Press, 1996. (Reprinted in The Late Foucault, ed. Jeremy Moss, Sage Press, 1998.)
* “Foucault, Feminism and Questions of Identity,” in The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. Ed. Gary Gutting. Cambridge University Press, 1994. (Trans. and reprinted as “Foucault, Feminismus und Identitaetsfragen,” Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie 4 (1994)
* “Feminism and Foucault: A Critical Reappraisal,” in Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate. Ed. Michael Kelly. Reprinted from Disciplining Foucault. MIT Press, 1994
* “Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies,” excerpt from Disciplining Foucault reprinted in Women’s Studies: A Reader. Ed. Stevi Jackson et. al. Harvester Press, 1993

For further information please contact Simon Duffy at: sbd_at_uq.edu.au