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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 mean by "we other Victorians?"

2. What happened to the penal and legal codes relating to sexual offenses in the nineteenth century?

3. According to Foucault, what has happened to our "will to knowledge" regarding sexuality?

4. What does Foucault say was true about the discourse on sex by scholars and theoreticians until Freud?

5. What does Foucault define as the popularly held belief about sexuality over the last two centuries?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the medicalization of sexuality? What relationship does it create?

2. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, what changes happened to the legal process of handling sexual offenses?

3. What is the relationship that Foucault defines between power and pleasure?

4. What does Foucault say sexuality was like in the beginning of the 17th century?

5. What is the principle of latency intrinsic to sexuality? How did it help spread sexual discourse?

6. What mechanisms spread sexual discourse after the confessional? Give examples.

7. According to Foucault, what affect has the supposed power of restriction and limitation had over sexuality?

8. What are ars erotica and scientia sexualis? How are they different?

9. What does Foucault mean by "We Other Victorians?"

10. Foucault says the repression hypothesis should be abandoned; what does he purport that power structures seek over sexuality? Why?

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

Explain what Foucault means by political power shifting from power of death to power over life.

Part 1: What is a society like whose political power structure is based on the power of death? What does power of death mean?

Part 2: What is a society like whose political power structure is focused on power over life? What does power over life mean?

Part 3: What other significant changes to society happened during this shift?

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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