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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 effect did the classification of perversions have?

2. What does "incomplete" sexual practices refer to?

3. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

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

5. What does the postulate of a general and diffuse causality say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four modes of power discussed by Foucault?

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

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

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

5. What is the relationship that Foucault defines between power and pleasure?

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

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

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

9. Per Foucault, what result came about from the "will to knowledge" with the taboo of sexuality?

10. Who was the peasant Jouy, and why was he significant to Foucault's argument?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault gives us a map of where the history of sexuality started, and how it spread to eventually include the entire population.

Part 1: What population does Foucault credit with the creation of sexuality? How is it that it came to arise there?

Part 2: Where did sexuality spread from there?

Part 3: By what means was sexuality dispersed throughout the population?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Foucault's premise that power within a sociological construction is inextricably linked to resistance, and the relation of this view of power in sexuality.

Part 1: Describe power in a sociological construction. Is it inherent in the system? Can it be acquired or seized? Are power relations intentional or subjective?

Part 2: Using the paradigm of power laid out above, describe the power relations in sexuality.

Essay Topic 3

Foucault defines five ways in which the discourse and power structure of the confession were adapted and extorted by science to be developed into scientia sexualis. Define each avenue and tell how it propagated sexual discourse and supported the creation of scientia sexualis.

Part 1: Clinical codification.

Part 2: The postulate of a general and diffuse causality.

Part 3: The principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality.

Part 4: The method of interpretation.

Part 5: The medicalization of the effects of confession.

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