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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. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?

2. What does Foucault say about the repressive hypothesis?

3. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

4. Which of the following is NOT a procedure by which the confession came to be constituted in scientific terms?

5. What is the central question Foucault wishes to address?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the repressive hypothesis?

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

3. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, what changes happened to the legal process of handling sexual offenses?

4. How did the institutions of education of children develop their own sexual discourse?

5. What is the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality? How did it help spread sexual discourse?

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

7. What is Foucault referring to by "a regulated and polymorphous incitement to discourse?"

8. What does Foucault say sexuality was like in the beginning of the 17th century?

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

10. What does Foucault say was the model for modern sexual discourse in the west? What elements of it remain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault presents us with three questions in part one. Discuss each of those three questions, and elaborate on what Foucault's theories are about each question.

Part 1: Is the repression of sexuality a historical fact or a modern creation imposed retroactively on the past?

Part 2: Does the repression of sexuality lead to concentration of power?

Part 3: Is the analysis of the repression of sexuality in reality simply a constituent component of the repression itself?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Foucault's reasons that support his argument that sexual repression is not a historical fact, but rather a modern creation imposed retroactively on the past.

Part 1: What does he say took place instead of repression?

Part 2: How did it come about?

Essay Topic 3

Foucault asserts that the format of scientia sexualis is based on the model of the Christian confessional.

Part 1: How did the format of confession change that opened the doors to broader sexual discourse?

Part 2: What was unique about the power structure and format of the confessional that opened the way to scientia sexualis?

Part 3: What elements of the confessional still exist in practice today in scientia sexualis? What has changed?

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