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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 say about people of disparate sexualities from the end of the eighteenth century on?

2. What need was embedded in the incitement to discourse on sex in the beginning of the eighteenth century?

3. Which of the following was NOT one of the three major explicit codes that governed sexual practices up to the end of the eighteenth century?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault's statements regarding the discourses around sexuality of children?

5. What best describes the incitement to discourse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four modes of power discussed by Foucault?

2. How did the emergence of "population" as an economic and political problem effect the discourse on sexuality?

3. How did the method of interpretation help solidify scientia sexualis?

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

5. How did the focus of sexual control change from the eighteenth to nineteenth century? Where was it and where did it shift to?

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

7. According to Foucault, what was the purpose of the emerging analytical sexual discourse? Give examples.

8. What did the medicalization of the effects of confession promise, and how did that effect scientia sexualis?

9. What does Foucault say was the model for modern sexual discourse in the west? What elements of it remain?

10. What is Foucault referring to by "a regulated and polymorphous incitement to discourse?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Foucault's premise that power within a sociological construction is inextricably linked to resistance, and the relation of this view of power in sexuality.

Part 1: Describe power in a sociological construction. Is it inherent in the system? Can it be acquired or seized? Are power relations intentional or subjective?

Part 2: Using the paradigm of power laid out above, describe the power relations in sexuality.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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