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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 are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?

2. The innate power structure of the confession leads to which of the following?

3. What were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the repressive hypothesis?

7. What does Foucault mean by the "speaker's benefit?"

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The history of sexuality is marked by large changes from century to century. Describe the view of sexuality, and how it changed, for each of the following time periods:

Part 1: 16th to 17th century.

Part 2: 18th century:

Part 3: Beginning of the 19th century:

Part 4: Middle of the 19th century.

Part 5: Late-19th century.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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