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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 the connection Foucault makes between the author of "My Secret Life" and the peasant Jouy?

2. Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the accepted ways to free oneself from the effects of sexual repression?

3. What modification happened to sexual discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

4. Per Foucault, what was the affect of power exercised over sex?

5. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Had sexuality been a method of repression it would have been used as a tool by one social class to subjugate another. Foucault refutes this with his explanation of the rise of sexual discourse.

Part 1: Explain how and why, in Foucault's analysis, that sexual discourse arose. Where did it start? What crucial foundation was laid?

Part 2: Explain how and why the discourse eventually diffused into throughout society.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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