1. For Foucault’s account of subjection, see Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, volume 1: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1978);
2. “Society Must be Defended”: Lectures at the College de France 1975–1976, trans. David Macey (New York: Picador, 2003); and
3. “Afterword: The Subject and Power,” in Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, 2nd edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983). The most important and influential feminist deployment of the Foucaultian notion of subjection is
4. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990), further elaborated and developed in
5. Butler, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997).