To Foucault, everything is about power relationships. Entwined with power is knowledge so that in every power relationship there is knowledge and vice-versa. Foucault takes the cliché "Knowledge is power" and revises it: the knowledge of humans integrated with the power that acts on humans equals power/knowledge. Consequently, power/knowledge (not a binary opposition but an integrated construction) is always a discursive formation and works through language. To understand how power/knowledge works, it's …showed first 75 words of 1413 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1413 total…theorized as performative, we become less dependent upon essentialist ontological categories and, at least theoretically, we can initiate a more radical approach into the nature of the individual sexed and gendered subject. "One Is Not Born a Woman" establishes a link between the denial of the 'natural' category of "woman" and the possibility for a feminist political movement in which women, as a class, fight for one another and for the destruction of sex categories (121).