Foucault's Queer Virgins: An Unfinished History in Fragments.
This essay attends to the place of virginity at the center of the fourth volume of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh. Reading virginity through a rhetorical lens, the essay argues for an ethics and a politics of counter-conduct in Foucault characterized by chiasmus, a...
| Publicado en: | Foucault Studies no. 29; pp. 22 - 38 |
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Apr2021
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