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

2. What does Foucault say about the ritual of confession?

3. What does Foucault say sex serves as support for in our modern age?

4. Toward the beginning of the eighteenth century, in which of the following areas was there NOT an incitement to talk about sex?

5. Which is the form Foucault uses to define the relationship between power and pleasure?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was "My Secret Life" and why was it relevant to Foucault's argument?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault asserts that there are four principle branches of modern sexuality based on four power centers. Describe each one.

Part 1: Hysterization of women's bodies.

Part 2: Pedagogy of children's sex.

Part 3: Socialization of procreation.

Part 4: Psychiatrization of perversion.

Essay Topic 2

In the beginning of the book, Foucault asserts that he will explain how the repressive hypothesis is in fact a constituent component of repression itself. Explain what he means.

Part 1: What is the repressive hypothesis?

Part 2: What is the social construct that repressive hypothesis is a part of? How is it a part of it?

Part 3: How does the repressive hypothesis fit in and function with sexuality today?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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