The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies

by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Book Overview

This interdisciplinary work demonstrates, by steadfast attention to corporeal matters of fact, how the concept of power and of power relations is rooted in bodily life, in animate form. It first shows how Foucault's optics of power is Sartre's The Look writ large, and proceeds to explain how optics of power are undergirded by a power of optics which has its roots in our primate evolutionary heritage. The exploration of an evolutionary genealogy leads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812692586
• ISBN13: 9780812692587
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"