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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. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?

2. What would Foucault agree with about modern industrial society?

3. Which of the following does Foucault NOT say was necessary to subjugate sex at the level of language after the beginning of the 17th century?

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

5. Which is NOT a center that Foucault recognizes as having produced discourses on sex in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Foucault referring to by "a regulated and polymorphous incitement to discourse?"

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 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 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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