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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 of the following is one of the theses that Foucault has presented?

2. What were the two places of tolerance to arise as a result of the confinement of sexuality?

3. How and where was sexuality confined by the Victorian bourgeoisie?

4. Which of the following is NOT true, according to Foucault, about children's sex in the eighteenth century?

5. What was the focus of the codes of sexual conduct up to the end of the eighteenth century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the postulate of general and diffuse causality? How did it help sexual discourse spread?

5. What is the classification of perversions, and what effect did it have?

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

7. What was "My Secret Life" and why was it relevant to Foucault's argument?

8. What is the repressive hypothesis?

9. Briefly define the changes that happened to confessions regarding sex in the seventeenth century, and how it affected sexual discourse.

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

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

Had sexuality been a method of repression it would have been used as a tool by one social class to subjugate another. Foucault refutes this with his explanation of the rise of sexual discourse.

Part 1: Explain how and why, in Foucault's analysis, that sexual discourse arose. Where did it start? What crucial foundation was laid?

Part 2: Explain how and why the discourse eventually diffused into throughout society.

Essay Topic 3

The confessional paved the way for the creation of other mechanisms and institutions to create authorized and necessary forms of sexual discourse. Write an essay describing those mechanisms and institutions and their own forms of sexual discourse.

Part 1: Judicial.

Part 2: Medical.

Part 3: Governmental.

Part 4: Pedagogical.

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