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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 distinguishes the last three centuries?

2. Which of the following is true about the medicalization of the sexually peculiar?

3. Per Foucault, what happened the "will to knowledge" about sexuality under the taboo of sexuality?

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

5. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the four modes of power discussed by Foucault?

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

7. What is the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality? How did it help spread sexual discourse?

8. What does Foucault say was the model for modern sexual discourse in the west? What elements of it remain?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The confessional paved the way for the creation of other mechanisms and institutions to create authorized and necessary forms of sexual discourse. Write an essay describing those mechanisms and institutions and their own forms of sexual discourse.

Part 1: Judicial.

Part 2: Medical.

Part 3: Governmental.

Part 4: Pedagogical.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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