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

2. Which of the following is a statement made by Foucault?

3. What was the effect of the deployment of alliance in the family unit to control sexuality?

4. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with regarding discourses?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the concept of juridico-discursive power. Where does Foucault say we perceive it to act?

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

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

5. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

6. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

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

9. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault defines two very different views of sexuality in the four power operations. In the classification of perversions sexuality is seen not as a habit but part of the essential nature of the person. In the medicalization of sexuality, it is seen as something to be analyzed and treated. Define each view and discuss the different effects and out comes on power relationships of each one.

Part 1: Explain sexuality in the classification of perversions, and the resulting dynamics.

Part 2: Explain sexuality in the medicalization of sexuality, and the resulting dynamics.

Part 3: What is your opinion?

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

The history of sexuality is marked by large changes from century to century. Describe the view of sexuality, and how it changed, for each of the following time periods:

Part 1: 16th to 17th century.

Part 2: 18th century:

Part 3: Beginning of the 19th century:

Part 4: Middle of the 19th century.

Part 5: Late-19th century.

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