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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 best describes the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult?

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

3. Which of the following statements would Foucault NOT agree with regarding discourses?

4. Who was Charcot?

5. What does Foucault say about the juridico-discursive form of power?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the hysterization of women's bodies?

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 are the deployment of alliance and the deployment of sexuality?

6. Per Foucault, what are the principle traits of juridico-discursive power structures?

7. Explain the concept of juridico-discursive power. Where does Foucault say we perceive it to act?

8. How does sexuality vary between classes?

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

10. Relationships between power and knowledge are transformational matrices and highly subject to change. Give an example of a power-knowledge relationship that has changed dramatically.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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