ENGL 251B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: New Historicism, Panopticon, Michel De Certeau
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Looks at the institution of power and surveillance. More interested in sexuality as a discourse what we talk about when we talk about sexuality . The body as a discourse/text and how it"s read. By the end of the 19th century, there is an explosion of means of diagnosing/speaking about sexuality. The norm of sexual patterns throughout life was outlined, specifically by doctors (the. How the church begins to lose power, and the state takes its place. The church emphasizes sexual monogamy and not using birth control (1960s), and everything else is deviant. Sexual personalities that are considered deviants in the church become criminalized in the state (e. g. locking up homosexuals). Surveillance doesn"t necessarily require physical presence of surveiller (see panopticon). Words like perversions and normalcy are up for grabs they are not natural law . Civil law is deferred to medicine (i. e. the law cannot diagnose/condemn someone as a.
