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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 series formed the solid nucleus of the new technologies of sex?

2. How does Foucault use the French revolution as an example to support his theory of the interconnectedness of juridico-discursive power and law?

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

4. The sexual discourse of families, parents, doctors, and educators have what effect?

5. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the insistence of the rule?

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. What role does discourse play in power?

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

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

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

7. Give an example of a tactical and strategic relationship.

8. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

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

10. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Explain what Foucault means by a society based on the symbolics of blood and a society based on the analytics of sex.

Part 1: What are the symbolics of blood? What is a society like that is based on them?

Part 2: What are the analytics of sex? What is a society like that is based on them?

Part 3: What two pre-existing social constructs made sex and its accompanying power structure so apt to fill the power void during the transition?

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