2. August 13.00-19.00, CU002 Giurisprudenza, Aula “Francesco Calasso”: Ruth Edith Hagengruber: Biopolitics: Erasing the Voices of Women Philosophers. The talk is part of an invited session hosted by Riccardo Pozzo.

In the 1990s, feminist critics pointed out that Foucault’s implicit androcentrism blinds this theory to the question of women: the categories of the philosophical field of biopolitics are and were not uncontroversial in feminist philosophy. This has largely been forgotten today, as feminists and political scientists, as well as representatives of the sociological interpretation of society, use the concepts introduced into the discussion by Foucault to operationalise their own content. The lecture will discuss the relationship between how these categories and operative processes were arrived at, what discourse they come from and where they are carried. It will also show the gaps in interpretation.

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