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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 logic of censorship?

2. How did the institutions of power that developed in the Middle Ages, primarily monarchy, make themselves acceptable?

3. Why does Foucault call power "omnipresent?"

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

5. What reason does Foucault suggest for the immense influence we give sex and the extensive discourse created about it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

3. Explain what is meant by the statement that sexuality changed from a matter of death and sin to a matter of life and illness.

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

5. Is there disinterested knowledge? Explain.

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

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

8. What is the pedagogization of children's sex?

9. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

10. How does Foucault use the French revolution to explain the interconnectedness of power and law?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

In the beginning of the book, Foucault asserts that he will explain how the repressive hypothesis is in fact a constituent component of repression itself. Explain what he means.

Part 1: What is the repressive hypothesis?

Part 2: What is the social construct that repressive hypothesis is a part of? How is it a part of it?

Part 3: How does the repressive hypothesis fit in and function with sexuality today?

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