Chloe Taylor

University of Alberta | UAlberta · Department of Women's and Gender Studies

In this response I compare Rebecca Tuvel's article, "In Defense of Transracialism," to several other recent examples of philosophical and social justice scholarship in which authors (Eli Clare, Alexandre Baril, Cressida Heyes, Ladelle McWhorter, Judith Butler) draw comparisons between diverse identities and oppressions, and draw ethical and politic...

Michel Foucault argues that it is not sex but death that is the true taboo in the modern, biopolitical era. The result is that regular death has been privatised and institutionalised, wars are waged in the name of life, capital punishment has become a scandal, and suicide has become a problem for sociological and psychiatric analysis rather than la...

Book Symposium on Gary Steiner's Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.

Michel Foucault is well known as a theorist of power who provided forceful critiques of institutions of confinement such as the psychiatric asylum and the prison. Although the invention of factory farms and industrial slaughterhouses, like prisons and psychiatric hospitals, can be considered emblematic moments in a history of modernity, and althoug...

Focusing on Foucault's work on “infamous men” and the “dangerous individual,” this chapter argues that there are other instances in Foucault's oeuvre in which he is similarly insensitive to violence against women, although these cases have drawn less critical attention. The two-fold aim of the chapter is, first, to examine what is at stake for Fouc...

This paper provides an overview of Michel Foucault's continually changing observations on familial power, as well as the feminist-Foucauldian literature on the family. It suggests that these accounts offer fragments of a genealogy of the family that undermine any all-encompassing or transhistorical account of the institution. Approaching the family...

Ladelle McWhorter introducesRacism and Sexual Oppression inAnglo-America with an account of her experiences during the days between the attack on and the death of Matthew Shepard. On sabbatical near Pennsylvania State University in October 1998, McWhorter describes following these events as they were covered by the media and discussed on a Penn Sta...

While Michel Foucault’s writings have been taken up extensively to explore gender and sexuality, until recently there was little work drawing on Foucault’s writings to discuss race. In part, this was because Foucault seemed to have said almost nothing about race, aside from some comments on Nazism and eugenics in the final pages of Part V of The Hi...

A Dialogue on Foucault and the Psychological Sciences.

Drawing on Michel Foucault's writings as well as the writings of feminist scholars bell hooks and Jane Gallop, this paper examines faculty–student sexual relations and the discourses and policies that surround them. It argues that the dominant discourses on professor–student sex and the policies that follow from them misunderstand the form of power...

In a 1983 interview, Michel Foucault contrasts our contemporary interest in se-xual identity with the ancient Greek preoccupation with diet, arguing that sex has replaced food as the privileged medium of self-constitution in the modern West. In the same interview, Foucault argues that modern liberation movements should return to the ancient model o...

Jodey Castricano, editor of Animal Subjects, opens the volume by citing Cary Wolfe's criticism of cultural studies for neglecting 'the question of the animal,' even as it has allowed itself to be transformed by questions of gender, race, sexuality, and class. Castricano thus presents Animal Subjects as a ground-breaking and indeed iconoclastic firs...

In 1977 Michel Foucault contemplated the idea of punishing rape only as a crime of violence, while in 1978 he argued that non-coercive sex between adults and minors should be decriminalized entirely. Feminists have consistently criticized these suggestions by Foucault. This paper argues that these feminist responses have failed to sufficiently unde...

In the first volume of the History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault states in passing that prostitution and pornography, like the sexual sciences of medicine and psychiatry, are involved in the proliferation of sexualities and the perverse implantation. Against an influential misinterpretation of this passage on the part of film studies scholar Linda...

Julia Kristeva describes three patterns of psychic identification: identification with the father and the symbolic, identification with the mother and the semiotic, and a refusal of either identification which results in a precarious balance in between. It is in the latter manner that a writer can access the paternal symbolic, or language, while ne...

Julia Kristeva describes three patterns of psychic identification: identification with the father and the symbolic, identification with the mother and the semiotic, and a refusal of either identification which results in a precarious balance in between. It is in the latter manner that a writer can access the paternal symbolic, or language, while ne...

This paper discusses the relationship between vision and ethics in the writings of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. While it begins with an account of the dominant antiocularism of Levinas’s and Derrida’s philosophies, according to which vision subsumes the other into the same, this essay also attends to less frequent moments in their works in...

Journal of Modern Literature 28.1 (2004) 65-88 Annie Ernaux writes books which she consistently describes as painful to write and shameful to expose to the public. She describes herself as needing to believe that she will accidentally die before the book becomes public in order to bear the mortification of exposure (Se perdre 42), the publication o...

This thesis analyses selected paintings and aspects of life of the Italian Renaissance in terms of the aesthetic properties of sadistic and masochistic symptomatologies and creative production, as these have been explored by philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Marcel Henaff, and Gilles Deleuze. One question which arises from this...