Coping
David Armstrong, 19 February 1981
The Policing of Families
by Jacques Donzelot, translated by Robert Hurley.
Hutchinson, 242 pp., £8.95, May 1980,0 09 140950 0 Show More
by Jacques Donzelot, translated by Robert Hurley.
Hutchinson, 242 pp., £8.95, May 1980,
“... individualism. The individual, in Foucault’s words, was both object and effect of power. Jacques Donzelot describes himself as working on the periphery of Michel Foucault and his book on the family continually displays its indebtedness to Foucault’s work. Thus, in a sense, Donzelot has not written a history ... ”