 | Kathy E. Ferguson - Business & Economics - 1984 - 308 pages
...women's individuality and autonomy. Foucault reminds us that to comprehend any discursive strategy one must make allowance for the complex and unstable process...instrument and an effect of power, but also a hindrance, a stumbling block, a point of resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy. Discourse transmits... | |
 | Kay Schaffer - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 252 pages
...or raised up against it, any more than silences are. We must make allowances for the complex and 80 unstable process whereby discourse can be both an instrument and an effect of power . . . Discourse transmits and produces power; it reinforces it, but also undermines and exposes it,... | |
 | Sherry B. Ortner - Religion - 1989 - 276 pages
...are not once and for all subservient to power or raised up against it, any more than silences are. We must make allowance for the complex and unstable...resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy" (1980:101). There is also an exciting body of substantive studies coming out that show quite persuasively... | |
 | Karen Newman - Drama - 1991 - 209 pages
...above, but in terms of what Foucault has called the "rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses": "We must make allowance for the complex and unstable...of resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy."35 The early seventeenth century is not only the moment when the discourses that manage femininity... | |
 | Katherine Sobba Green - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 204 pages
...containment. As Michel Foucault explains in his rule of tactical polyvalence, allowance must be made "for the complex and unstable process whereby discourse...resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy." 4 That is, insofar as Amazons, bluestockings, sentimentalists, and fashionable women could speak and... | |
 | Diana Fuss - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 436 pages
...is itself an extension of a homophobic discourse. And yet "discourse," he writes on the same page, "can be both an instrument and an effect of power,...of resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy."1 So I am skeptical about how the "I" is determined as it operates under the title of the... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - History - 1991 - 402 pages
...irreducible opposite' (pp. 95-6). This opposition between power and resistance must be understood as a 'complex and unstable process whereby discourse can...instrument and an effect of power, but also a hindrance, a stumbling block, a point of resistance and a starting point for an opposite strategy. Discourse transmits... | |
 | John McGowan - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 316 pages
..."discourses are not once and for all subservient to power or raised up against it, any more man silences are. We must make allowance for the complex and unstable process whereby discourse can be bodi an instrument and an effect of power, but also a hindrance, a stumbling-block, a point of resistance... | |
 | Karen Newman - Drama - 1991 - 209 pages
...Fatherhood." In Poole's speech, the marital analogy is a hindrance to patriarchal conceptions of the state, "a point of resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy." It is no accident that the 1640s were also the moment of the divorce debates and of the sectarian attacks... | |
 | Phyllis Mack - History - 1995 - 496 pages
...are not once and for all subservient to power or raised up against it, any more than silences are. We must make allowance for the complex and unstable...resistance and a starting point for an opposing strategy. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Quaker visionaries claimed to have transcended their identities;... | |
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Foucault states that: discourses are not once and for all subservient to power or raised up against it, any more than silences are. We must make allowances for the complex and unstable process whereby discourse can be both an instrument and an effect... 
