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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 did the socialization of procreative behavior do?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the three successive stages by which sexuality penetrated the population at large?

3. Where did the most rigorous techniques of sexual restraint first occur?

4. What does Foucault NOT say is a derivative basis of power?

5. What does Foucault say is true of discourse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Is there disinterested knowledge? Explain.

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

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

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

7. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

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

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

10. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

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

Foucault brings up two examples of the "incitement to discourse."

Part 1: Explain "My Secret Life" and the case of the peasant Jouy. Why are each of these useful to Foucault's argument of the incitement to discourse?

Part 2: Consider the evolution of sexual discourse and how it relates to "My Secret Life" and the case of Jouy. In which case is the discourse more rudimentary, and in which is it, as sexual discourse, more "evolved?" Why?

Essay Topic 3

According to Foucault, the equating of power and pleasure, and of power and perversion, emerged along four principle modes. Discuss what each mode means and how it came about.

Part 1: Analysis of sexuality.

Part 2: Classification of perversions.

Part 3: Medicalizable objects.

Part 4: Fragmentation and analysis of sexuality.

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