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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 feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

2. Which series formed the solid nucleus of the new technologies of sex?

3. What does Foucault say about resistance?

4. What is the psychiatrization of perverse pleasure?

5. When sexuality came to demand the surveillance of the population where did it expand?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the spread of sexuality, as told by Foucault, refute the repressive hypothesis that sexuality was repressed in order to subjugate the working class?

2. In what form did sexuality first arise, and what was its intended purpose?

3. How does sexuality vary between classes?

4. Explain the principles of negative relation and the cycle of prohibition in the juridico-discursive power structure.

5. What is the relationship between the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality in the family unit? How does it interact?

6. What are the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

7. What does Foucault have to say about resistance? Where can you find it?

8. Explain the concept of juridico-discursive power. Where does Foucault say we perceive it to act?

9. How does Foucault define power? What is it like?

10. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The history of sexuality is marked by large changes from century to century. Describe the view of sexuality, and how it changed, for each of the following time periods:

Part 1: 16th to 17th century.

Part 2: 18th century:

Part 3: Beginning of the 19th century:

Part 4: Middle of the 19th century.

Part 5: Late-19th century.

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

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.

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