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

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

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

4. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?

5. Which of the following is NOT a statement that Foucault makes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the classification of perversions, and what effect did it have?

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

3. What mechanisms spread sexual discourse after the confessional? Give examples.

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

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

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

7. How did the method of interpretation help solidify scientia sexualis?

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

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

10. How did the emergence of "population" as an economic and political problem effect the discourse on sexuality?

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 discusses the circular terms of power. Write an essay describing what he means by power being circular in the following two circumstances.

Part 1: Describe the circular nature of the legal power structure.

Part 2: Discuss how, like the legal structure, power and sexuality are inextricably intertwined.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the juridico-discursive power structure and explain the five principle features.

Part 1: What is the juridico-discursive power structure?

Part 2: Explain negative relation.

Part 3: Explain the insistence to the rule.

Part 4: Explain the cycle of prohibition.

Part 5: Explain the logic of censorship.

Part 6: Explain the uniformity of apparatus.

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