To browse Academia. This book brings together Foucault's writings on crime and delinquency, on the one hand, and sexuality, on the other, to argue for an anti-carceral feminist Foucauldian approach to sex crimes. The book includes a discussion of non-retributive responses to crime, including preventative, redistributive, restorative, and transformative justice. It concludes with two appendixes: the original 19th-century medico-legal report on Charles Jouy and its English translation by the author.
Feminist Readings of Foucault 1. Revising Sex Crime Law 3. Feminism, Crime, and Punishment 5. The Perverse Implantation and Sex Work 8. Zoosexuality and Interspecies Sexual Assault 9. In Michel Foucault contemplated the idea of punishing rape only as a crime of violence, while in 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 understand the theoretical motivations behind Foucault's statements on sex-crime legislation reform, and will offer a new feminist appraisal of Foucault's suggestions. After many decades of feminist struggle, victims of sexual violation finally have the relative freedom to speak about their experiences in different venues to diverse audiences; however, they continue to be silenced, spoken over, and spoken for.
While scholars and activists maintain close attention to the content of what survivors say and the means by which their speech is suppressed, there is less interrogation into the power relationships that structure the conditions through which this speech is made possible. This approach, sometimes referred to as "Foucauldian discourse analysis," is associated with the French post-structuralist philosopher Michel Foucault. Foucault argued that hegemonic discourses about the self in modern societies are largely formed through institutionally regulated, confessional speech.
Confession occurs when a subject utters a "true" statement about herself out of a sense of duty. Foucault poses confession as the inverse of critique. In confession, the task for the subject is to name what exists, so what exists can be analyzed and deciphered in intricate detail and its hidden aspects can be illuminated.
