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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 is possible, regarding our society, where sex is concerned?

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

3. What reason does Foucault give for modern society being perverse?

4. What can be said of the power mechanism(s) involved in the labeling of disparate sexualities?

5. What is true about the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the beginning of the 17th century, where was sexuality shifted to and for what ends?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault asserts that there are four principle branches of modern sexuality based on four power centers. Describe each one.

Part 1: Hysterization of women's bodies.

Part 2: Pedagogy of children's sex.

Part 3: Socialization of procreation.

Part 4: Psychiatrization of perversion.

Essay Topic 2

Foucault brings up two examples of the "incitement to discourse."

Part 1: Explain "My Secret Life" and the case of the peasant Jouy. Why are each of these useful to Foucault's argument of the incitement to discourse?

Part 2: Consider the evolution of sexual discourse and how it relates to "My Secret Life" and the case of Jouy. In which case is the discourse more rudimentary, and in which is it, as sexual discourse, more "evolved?" Why?

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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