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

2. What did the author of "My Secret Life" write about?

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

4. What is the relationship between pleasure and power?

5. In the classification of perversions, what was believed about the peripheral sexualities?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Foucault, what was the purpose of the emerging analytical sexual discourse? Give examples.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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