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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 hysterization of women's bodies refer to?

2. What is the feature of juridico-discursive power that Foucault labels as the logic of censorship?

3. Where would techniques of repression of sexuality first appear?

4. What does the rule of immanence state?

5. Which of the following definitions of sexuality would Foucault likely endorse?

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

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

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

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

6. What role does discourse play in power?

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

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

9. How did sexuality spread to the general population?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the beginning of the book, Foucault asserts that he will explain how the repressive hypothesis is in fact a constituent component of repression itself. Explain what he means.

Part 1: What is the repressive hypothesis?

Part 2: What is the social construct that repressive hypothesis is a part of? How is it a part of it?

Part 3: How does the repressive hypothesis fit in and function with sexuality today?

Essay Topic 2

Foucault asserts that the format of scientia sexualis is based on the model of the Christian confessional.

Part 1: How did the format of confession change that opened the doors to broader sexual discourse?

Part 2: What was unique about the power structure and format of the confessional that opened the way to scientia sexualis?

Part 3: What elements of the confessional still exist in practice today in scientia sexualis? What has changed?

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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