Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Pre-modern and modern power: Foucault and the case of domestic violence
Other Titles:	Signs : journal of women in culture and society
Authors:	Westlund, Andrea, C
Keywords:	Overview;Theories of violence
Year:	1999
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Citation:	24 (4), Summer 1999
Notes:	This article analyses domestic violence and battered women with philosophical and conceptual reference to Michel Foucault’s modernisation of power, the power of disciplinary institutions and practices in Discipline and Punish:. It argues that Sandra Bartky’s essay misses the fundamental importance in recognising that the most pervasive methods of maintaining power and control over women remain ‘pre-modern’ in Foucault’s terminology. It describes how battered women experience pre-modern and modern forms of power side by side: they have to deal with the terror by an all-powerful ‘sovereign’ but are also compelled to turn for help to modern institutions such as medicine, psychiatry and the police, which could re-victimise them by pathologising their condition. However, it goes on to argue that modern institutions are not without potential, for local resistance and transformation.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16269
ISSN:	0097-9740
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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