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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 rules regarding power and resistance is represented by the following example? In the nineteenth century the sex of a child was discussed between parents and educators or doctors. However, through modifications and shifts now the sexuality of a child is discussed between the child and a doctor with the sexuality of the parents called into question.

2. What does Foucault say we need to do in order to understand the relationship between sexuality and power?

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

4. What major transformation in sexuality happened at the turn of the nineteenth century?

5. What does Foucault mean when he refers to "power?"

Short Essay Questions

1. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

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

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

5. What is the socialization of procreative behavior?

6. 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?

7. Is there disinterested knowledge? Explain.

8. How does Foucault claim monarchs of the middle ages persuaded the existing power centers to accept and participate in their power?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Explain what Foucault means by political power shifting from power of death to power over life.

Part 1: What is a society like whose political power structure is based on the power of death? What does power of death mean?

Part 2: What is a society like whose political power structure is focused on power over life? What does power over life mean?

Part 3: What other significant changes to society happened during this shift?

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