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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. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?

3. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

4. What element of the confession has opened the pathway to explore existing domains?

5. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the repressive hypothesis?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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