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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. When does the alternate history that Foucault tells for sexuality start?

2. Which of the following best describes the pedagogization of children's sex?

3. According to Foucault, which of the following is NOT one of the ways we view sex?

4. What does the rule of double conditioning state?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Define how Foucault sees sexuality.

4. What is the relationship between the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality in the family unit? How does it interact?

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

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

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

8. Is there disinterested knowledge? Explain.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault designates the family unit as a focus point where alliance and sexuality come together.

Part 1: Describe why and how alliance and sexuality came to meet in the family unit.

Part 2: What is their relationship there? What is the result of their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Foucault defines five ways in which the discourse and power structure of the confession were adapted and extorted by science to be developed into scientia sexualis. Define each avenue and tell how it propagated sexual discourse and supported the creation of scientia sexualis.

Part 1: Clinical codification.

Part 2: The postulate of a general and diffuse causality.

Part 3: The principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality.

Part 4: The method of interpretation.

Part 5: The medicalization of the effects of confession.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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