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Feminism Wrecked My Yoga Class

Reflections on Critique and Freedom by Karen Kachra.

In the winter of 2003 I was attending two courses. One was a university graduate seminar on the work of Michel Foucault, the French theorist; the other was an introductory course in tantra yoga, the yoga of sexuality, taught at my local yoga studio. Both ran once a week for three hours. Both called me into question – who I was, who I wanted to become.

For one of the sessions of the graduate course a woman who I’ll call ‘Elaine’ (not her real name) had the task of preparing a short question for us to apply to that week’s reading, Foucault’s The Use of Pleasure.

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