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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following can NOT be said of the population's sexual conduct in the eighteenth century?

2. Which of the following would Foucault NOT agree was a result of sexual discourse?

3. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

4. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

5. What does Foucault NOT say was true about the science of sexuality before Freud?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are ars erotica and scientia sexualis? How are they different?

2. How did the method of interpretation help solidify scientia sexualis?

3. Briefly define the changes that happened to confessions regarding sex in the seventeenth century, and how it affected sexual discourse.

4. What does Foucault mean by "We Other Victorians?"

5. According to Foucault, what was the purpose of the emerging analytical sexual discourse? Give examples.

6. Foucault says the repression hypothesis should be abandoned; what does he purport that power structures seek over sexuality? Why?

7. What are the three topics of doubt about the repressive hypothesis that Foucault will seek to explore?

8. How did the emergence of "population" as an economic and political problem effect the discourse on sexuality?

9. How did the focus of sexual control change from the eighteenth to nineteenth century? Where was it and where did it shift to?

10. After the beginning of the 17th century, where was sexuality shifted to and for what ends?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault defines two very different views of sexuality in the four power operations. In the classification of perversions sexuality is seen not as a habit but part of the essential nature of the person. In the medicalization of sexuality, it is seen as something to be analyzed and treated. Define each view and discuss the different effects and out comes on power relationships of each one.

Part 1: Explain sexuality in the classification of perversions, and the resulting dynamics.

Part 2: Explain sexuality in the medicalization of sexuality, and the resulting dynamics.

Part 3: What is your opinion?

Essay Topic 2

According to Foucault, the equating of power and pleasure, and of power and perversion, emerged along four principle modes. Discuss what each mode means and how it came about.

Part 1: Analysis of sexuality.

Part 2: Classification of perversions.

Part 3: Medicalizable objects.

Part 4: Fragmentation and analysis of sexuality.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the juridico-discursive power structure and explain the five principle features.

Part 1: What is the juridico-discursive power structure?

Part 2: Explain negative relation.

Part 3: Explain the insistence to the rule.

Part 4: Explain the cycle of prohibition.

Part 5: Explain the logic of censorship.

Part 6: Explain the uniformity of apparatus.

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