Presentation: The History of Sexuality, Part V

Christine Hamlin
LITCS 114
Bldg. 494, room 160B
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Background for Sex as a Political Issue

(pp 135-145)

Take Life or Let Live

Managers of Life and Survival

Two Poles of Power over Life (17th C—onward)

Bio-Power & Capitalism

Sex as a Political Issue

(pp 145-159)

FOUCAULT'S MAIN THING

Let us consider the stratagems by which we were induced to apply all our skills to discovering its secrets, by which we were attached to the obligation to draw out its truth, and made guilty for having failed to recognize it for so long (159)