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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 is NOT a practice of the form of power derived from analysis used to control sexuality in children?

2. What action was NOT taken regarding the farm hand Jouy when he was discovered seeking caresses from little girls?

3. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?

4. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

5. Which statement is least correct, according to Foucault, about pedagogical institutions in the eighteenth century?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the medicalization of the effects of confession promise, and how did that effect scientia sexualis?

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

3. What were the objectives of the the extensive laws regulating the actions of married couples in the eighteenth century?

4. According to Foucault, what affect has the supposed power of restriction and limitation had over sexuality?

5. What is the medicalization of sexuality? What relationship does it create?

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

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

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

9. What is the postulate of general and diffuse causality? How did it help sexual discourse spread?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault designates the family unit as a focus point where alliance and sexuality come together.

Part 1: Describe why and how alliance and sexuality came to meet in the family unit.

Part 2: What is their relationship there? What is the result of their relationship?

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

In part four, Foucault describes the focus of sexuality changing from a matter of death and sin to a matter of life and illness. What does he mean?

Part 1: How is sexuality originally seen as a matter of death and sin?

Part 2: What does Foucault mean by sexuality being a matter of life and illness? How did this come about?

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