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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 the rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses state?

2. Which of the following best characterizes the techniques of sexuality from the sixteenth century onward?

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

4. What does the rule of double conditioning state?

5. What can be said of the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the hysterization of women's bodies?

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

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

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

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

7. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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