The Will to Empower : Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Small Things 1(18) Democratic Subjects 19(24) Subjects 20(4) Citizens and Subjects 24(4) Homo Politicus and Homo Civicus: Democracy and Power 28(6) Producing the Poor, or Making Subjects 34(4) Making Citizens: Bio-Power 38(5) The Liberal Arts of Governance 43(24) Society as a Whole 44(4) Governing the Poor: Reform Movements and Self-Help 48(6) Society as a Whole and Political Freedom 54(4) ``Governing and Guiding Women'' 58(4) The Crisis of Governability 62(5) The Will to Empower: Technologies of Citizenship and the War on Poverty 67(20) The Political Logic of Empowerment 70(2) The Political Economy of Empowerment 72(4) Modeling the Poor 76(5) Operationalizing Power 81(3) Arming the Poor 84(1) The Subjects of Power 85(2) Revolutions Within: Self-Government and Self-Esteem 87(17) Liberation Therapy 89(3) Constituting a State of Esteem 92(4) A New Science of Politics 96(5) Recovery of the Will 101(3) Welfare Queens: Ruling by Number 104(18) Policing Democracy 108(2) Mythical Queens 110(3) The Terms of Poor Women's Citizenship 113(2) The Terms of Resistance 115(7) Conclusion: Iteration 122(5) Notes 127(20) Index 147