[Jana Sawicki] Jana Sawicki
Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
Chair of Women's And Gender Studies
Williams College



General Information
Education
Fields of Interest
Courses Taught
Selected Publications
Course Offerings
Philosophy 304T Authenticity Student Papers
Women's and Gender Studies Main Page
Prof. Sawicki's Faculty Lecture from February 1998


General Information

Office: Harper House 10
Office phone: (413) 597-2305
Office fax: x4620
E-mail: jsawicki@williams.edu
Snail-mail address: Harper House, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267



EDUCATION: B.A. Sweet Briar College; Ph.D. Columbia University (1983)

FIELDS OF INTEREST: Foucault, Feminist Theory, Recent Continental Philosophy, Queer Theory, Social and Political Philosophy

COURSES TAUGHT: Recent Continental Philosophy: Hegel to Poststructuralism; Foucault, Gender and the Body; Hermeneutics, Existentialism, Authenticity: Rousseau to Poststructuralism, Introduction to Feminist Thought, Jr/Sr Seminar in Women's Studies.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS

Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power and the Body. New York: Routledge Press, 1991.

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

"Le Feminism et Foucault en Amerique du Nord: Convergence, critique, possibilite" (trans. from English by Colette Pratt), in Aux risques de Foucault (Paris: Supplementaires, 1997), pp. 87-93.

"Feminism, Foucault, and "Subjects" of Power and Freedom," in Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault. Ed. Susan Hekman. Penn State University Press, 1996. (Reprinted in The Late Foucault, ed. Jeremy Moss, Sage Press, 1998.)

"Foucault, Feminism and Questions of Identity," in The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. Ed. Gary Gutting. Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 286-313. (Trans. and reprinted as "Foucault, Feminismus und Identitaetsfragen," Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie (4/1994): pp. 609-631.

"Feminism and Foucault: A Critical Reappraisal," in Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate. Ed. Michael Kelly. Reprinted from Disciplining Foucault. MIT Press, 1994.

"Disciplining Mothers: Feminism and the New Reproductive Technologies," excerpt from Disciplining Foucault reprinted in Women's Studies: A Reader. Ed. Stevi Jackson et. al. Harvester Press, 1993, pp. 394-396.


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