Ladelle McWhorter is Associate Professor ofPhilosophy and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Richmond. Her previous publications include an edited volume entitled Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy and articles on Foucault, Bataille, and feminist and queer theory. She grows her own tomatoes and is well known as aline dancer.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: Foucault's Impact: Challenges and TransformationsCh. 1: Views from the Site of Political Oppression: Or, How I served as an Anchor Point for Power and Emerged as a Locus of ResistanceCh. 2: Genealogical Diversions: Wherein the Ascetic Priestess Loses Her Way and Begins to Wander Aimlessly Through Dem Ole Cotton Fields Back HomeCh. 3: Why I Shouldn't Like Foucault . . . So They SayCh. 4: Disorientation: Or, Beyond Sex-DesireCh. 5: Natural Bodies: Or, Ain't Nobody Here But Us DeviantsCh. 6: Self-Overcoming Through Ascetic PleasuresCh. 7: Counterattack: An Ethics of StyleInconclusionNotesIndex

Ladelle McWhorter is Associate Professor ofPhilosophy and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Richmond. Her previous publications include an edited volume entitled Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy and articles on Foucault, Bataille, and feminist and queer theory. She grows her own tomatoes and is well known as aline dancer.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: Foucault's Impact: Challenges and TransformationsCh. 1: Views from the Site of Political Oppression: Or, How I served as an Anchor Point for Power and Emerged as a Locus of ResistanceCh. 2: Genealogical Diversions: Wherein the Ascetic Priestess Loses Her Way and Begins to Wander Aimlessly Through Dem Ole Cotton Fields Back HomeCh. 3: Why I Shouldn't Like Foucault . . . So They SayCh. 4: Disorientation: Or, Beyond Sex-DesireCh. 5: Natural Bodies: Or, Ain't Nobody Here But Us DeviantsCh. 6: Self-Overcoming Through Ascetic PleasuresCh. 7: Counterattack: An Ethics of StyleInconclusionNotesIndex

Ladelle McWhorter is Associate Professor ofPhilosophy and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Richmond. Her previous publications include an edited volume entitled Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy and articles on Foucault, Bataille, and feminist and queer theory. She grows her own tomatoes and is well known as aline dancer.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: Foucault's Impact: Challenges and TransformationsCh. 1: Views from the Site of Political Oppression: Or, How I served as an Anchor Point for Power and Emerged as a Locus of ResistanceCh. 2: Genealogical Diversions: Wherein the Ascetic Priestess Loses Her Way and Begins to Wander Aimlessly Through Dem Ole Cotton Fields Back HomeCh. 3: Why I Shouldn't Like Foucault . . . So They SayCh. 4: Disorientation: Or, Beyond Sex-DesireCh. 5: Natural Bodies: Or, Ain't Nobody Here But Us DeviantsCh. 6: Self-Overcoming Through Ascetic PleasuresCh. 7: Counterattack: An Ethics of StyleInconclusionNotesIndex