Original scientific paper

FOUCAULT’S THEORY OF POWER AND THE CRITIQUE OF THE NOTION OF GENDER

Dinko Župan ; Croatian Institute of History, Department for the History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja, Slaovnski Brod, Croatia

Abstract

The author explains Foucault’s concepts of power and its influence on methodological problems in women’s and gender history. The author presents the problems in women’s history and gender theory by examining the works of Joan Wallach Scott and Judith Butler. The author focuses on the problems of distinguishing and using the notions sex and gender. The paper explains the critique of the notion of gender by refering to the influence that the post-structural theory of identity has had on contemporary feminist theory.

Keywords

Theory of Power; Sex; Gender; Women’s History; Female Identities

Hrčak ID:

47998

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/47998

Publication date:

26.7.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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