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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. Which of the following definitions of sexuality would Foucault likely endorse?

2. Which of the following can be said about the deployment of sexuality throughout the population?

3. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

4. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

5. The hysterical woman and the onanistic child were likely to have stemmed from what aspect of their existence in their specific social class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the hysterization of women's bodies?

2. What does Foucault mean when he refers to the cyclical nature of power and law? Explain.

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

4. Is there disinterested knowledge? Explain.

5. Relationships between power and knowledge are transformational matrices and highly subject to change. Give an example of a power-knowledge relationship that has changed dramatically.

6. What is the socialization of procreative behavior?

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

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

9. Per Foucault, what are the principle traits of juridico-discursive power structures?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault defines five ways in which the discourse and power structure of the confession were adapted and extorted by science to be developed into scientia sexualis. Define each avenue and tell how it propagated sexual discourse and supported the creation of scientia sexualis.

Part 1: Clinical codification.

Part 2: The postulate of a general and diffuse causality.

Part 3: The principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality.

Part 4: The method of interpretation.

Part 5: The medicalization of the effects of confession.

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

Explain what Foucault means by a society based on the symbolics of blood and a society based on the analytics of sex.

Part 1: What are the symbolics of blood? What is a society like that is based on them?

Part 2: What are the analytics of sex? What is a society like that is based on them?

Part 3: What two pre-existing social constructs made sex and its accompanying power structure so apt to fill the power void during the transition?

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