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Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (Gender and Culture Series)

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Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In this earlier volume, Foucault recasts Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviants, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality. By reclaiming these deft moves, Lynne Huffer teases out exciting new strands of Foucauldian thought. She then revisits the theorist's ethical work in light of these discoveries, divining an ethics of eros that sees sexuality as a lived experience we are repeatedly called on to remember. Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason.
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    0231149182
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    978-0231149181
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    Columbia University Press
  4. Publication date
    November 5, 2009
  5. Part of series
    Gender and Culture
  6. Language
    English
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    6 x 1 x 9.1 inches
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[A] provocative and thoughtful book. -- Christopher Roman ― Foucault Studies

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Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University and author of Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex; Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference; and Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press (November 5, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0231149182
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0231149181
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.41 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9.1 inches
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Lynne Huffer (1960- ) is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of numerous books, including most recently a trilogy on eros in the work of Michel Foucault (Mad for Foucault, 2010), Are the Lips a Grave (2013), and Foucault's Strange Eros (2020), from Columbia University Press.

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M. Raja
5.0 out of 5 stars Read This to Rethink Foucault and Queer Theory
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2011
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This is not yet another book about Queer theory: it is THE book about queer theory, the one that would define the future of gender and queer studies.

In this deeply researched monograph, Huffer, in her moving lyrical prose, teaches us the value of revisiting all the major markers of queer studies with an eye on Foucault's most important work: History of Madness.

Huffer's main argument, and I am simplifying here, is that early queer theory relied heavily on Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol.1, but an altogether different Foucault can be retrieved and mobilized for queer studies if the scholars and students read Foucault's views on gender and sexuality in juxtaposition with his huge early work, History of Madness.

This is also a book about eros, about love: You cannot just read this book, You have to experience it!
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brett
3.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking, but Long Winded
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2011
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This book is very important, and should be of great interest to anyone who uses the writings of Foucault. The author does a great job problematizing existing utilizations of Foucault's writings (especially those of Judith Butler) and highlights the problems in those who have read Foucault psychoanalytically. She also lays out an important exposition of the ethics embedded in Foucault's oeuvre.

I really wanted to give this book four or five stars because I do consider it really important, and I largely agree with many of the critiques made by the author. This is a book that needs to be read by the many people who mis-use Foucault, especially in queer theory. However, I also found the writing style to be highly problematic. Many times, the author takes several paragraphs to say something that could be said much more quickly, and discussions of the material tend to be rambling and loop around several times. As such, it is often hard to follow the argument - or sometimes even see the point the author is making in large sections of the book. Even though I have only given the book three stars, I would highly encourage others to read this - though they should know that it might be a less than pleasant experience.
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lisliasm
5.0 out of 5 stars Really thought provoking
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2011
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For students of Foucault and Queer Theory, this book is really challenging and thought provoking. If you are familiar with Judith Butler, Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick, and Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume 1, you should definitely check this out for inspiration and new ideas. It might shift your thinking completely, or you might disagree completely, but there's no substitute for a completely new perspective on well-worn intellectual terrain.
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Francois Lachance
5.0 out of 5 stars Erudite and Accessible
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2019
Tackles the misconception that Foucault endorses a linear time line from sodomitical acts to homosexual identities. Does so with brilliance. Devoting attention to the history of the texts in their English and French versions. Linguistically savvy and ever careful to contextualize and contrast French and Anglo-American reception. Attuned to questions of style and irony. And is itself an incarnation of an ethical and erotic style.
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