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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 is Foucault NOT claiming to search for instances of?

2. What factor supported and relayed the discourse on sex to become an essential component of society?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

4. Which of the following best describes the levels of sexual discourse in the nineteenth century according to Foucault?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the doubts Foucault expresses against the "repressive hypothesis?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are ars erotica and scientia sexualis? How are they different?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Foucault's premise that power within a sociological construction is inextricably linked to resistance, and the relation of this view of power in sexuality.

Part 1: Describe power in a sociological construction. Is it inherent in the system? Can it be acquired or seized? Are power relations intentional or subjective?

Part 2: Using the paradigm of power laid out above, describe the power relations in sexuality.

Essay Topic 2

Foucault defines five ways in which the discourse and power structure of the confession were adapted and extorted by science to be developed into scientia sexualis. Define each avenue and tell how it propagated sexual discourse and supported the creation of scientia sexualis.

Part 1: Clinical codification.

Part 2: The postulate of a general and diffuse causality.

Part 3: The principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality.

Part 4: The method of interpretation.

Part 5: The medicalization of the effects of confession.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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