Spike Heels | Power Feminism
In the following essay, the author discusses ‘‘power feminism’’ and Rebeck’s Spike Heels.
In his essay ‘‘Power and Knowledge,’’ Michel Foucault wrote, ‘‘What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn’t only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse.’’ Foucault means that power, even dominant power, is not bad, but actually enticing. Recent feminists have adopted the Foucaultian idea of power as both attractive and compatible with pleasure, in a new form of feminism called ‘‘power feminism.’’ The term ‘‘power...
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