Sullivan (1996) also criticizes queer theorists for relying upon Foucault's account of power, which he argues does not allow for meaningful resistance.
However, others have argued power-over and power-to refer to fundamentally different meanings of the word "power" and that it is a mistake to try to develop an account of power that integrates these two concepts (Pitkin 1972, Wartenberg 1990).
As we will see in a moment, Foucault's account of subjection and his account of power more generally have been extremely fruitful, but also quite controversial, for feminists interested in analyzing domination.
According to the traditional Marxist account of power, domination is understood on the model of class exploitation; domination results from the capitalist appropriation of the surplus value that is produced by the workers.
More general debates about the philosophical adequacy of a politics of recognition continue: for example, in her 2008 book Against Recognition, Lois McNay argues that identity claims that are at the heart of many contemporary social movements are represented as demands for recognition in the context of an over-simplified account of power.
14 15 Differential effects by animal or plant origin of the diet were not examined in the earlier European studies, but in our study we were not able to document any effects, possibly on account of power limitations.
The sex could hardly be more different from her own accounts of power and dominance.
Foucault (1978, 82) rejected traditional accounts of power as solely dominating and instead proposed an analytics of power equally attuned to its productive qualities.
Foucault viewed grandiose accounts of power – accounts influenced by the metaphor of a clearly defined battlefield of opponents – as inappropriate, proposing instead to explore struggle in all its terrestrial and contradictory detail.
Several of the most prominent Foucaultian-feminist analyses of power draw on his account of disciplinary power in order to critically analyze normative femininity.
