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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 negative relation of power and sexuality?

2. What can we expect discourses on sex to tell us?

3. What does the juridico-discursive model of power say about desire?

4. Which of the following best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

6. What role does psychiatry play in the deployment of sexuality and the repressive hypothesis?

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

10. How does sexuality vary between classes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Foucault gives us a map of where the history of sexuality started, and how it spread to eventually include the entire population.

Part 1: What population does Foucault credit with the creation of sexuality? How is it that it came to arise there?

Part 2: Where did sexuality spread from there?

Part 3: By what means was sexuality dispersed throughout the population?

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