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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 were the effects of the power exercised over sexuality in the nineteenth century?

2. Per Foucault, what does our tone of voice tell us when we speak about sexuality?

3. What does Foucault say has happened to sexual discourse?

4. What can be said about the family unit and educational institutes in the nineteenth century?

5. What are the two great procedures for producing the truth about sex?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are the three topics of doubt about the repressive hypothesis that Foucault will seek to explore?

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

5. Per Foucault, what result came about from the "will to knowledge" with the taboo of sexuality?

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

7. What is the repressive hypothesis?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foucault discusses the circular terms of power. Write an essay describing what he means by power being circular in the following two circumstances.

Part 1: Describe the circular nature of the legal power structure.

Part 2: Discuss how, like the legal structure, power and sexuality are inextricably intertwined.

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

Describe the juridico-discursive power structure and explain the five principle features.

Part 1: What is the juridico-discursive power structure?

Part 2: Explain negative relation.

Part 3: Explain the insistence to the rule.

Part 4: Explain the cycle of prohibition.

Part 5: Explain the logic of censorship.

Part 6: Explain the uniformity of apparatus.

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