WMST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Michel Foucault, Sexual Repression
2 Apr 2016
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Wrote on many things from a postmodernist perspecive. We all have our own views, etc. but our individual ideniies are based on a social construcion. Discipline and punish book by foucault, punishment is no longer on the body but on the soul. Idea of disciplining oneself is popular in feminism. Power and knowledge is a key feature in postmodern thought. The knower is someone in a posiion at an insituion. Study how a concept has shiter over ime. Many problems are related to sexual repression. Sex has become insituionalized, less about expression of desires, more scieniic and discursive. **quote slide 23 sex became something we could study and learn about. What type of sex you engage in.
