Women, Gender, And Sexuality Studies WGSS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Thai Baht, Counterpoint, Self-Control
24 Oct 2016
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Wasn"t about a restriction of a biological instinct nor an exterior domain to which power was applied. Sexuality was a result and an instrument of power"s design: sexuality is not opposed to and subversive of power, sexuality is a transfer point of power. Foucault rejected the notion that repression was the organizing principle of sexual discourse: the history of sexuality is defined by discursive elements that penetrated social and self-disciplinary regimes into the most intimate domains of life. Distinctions shaped through race: must add another category to the four subjects of sexual discourse. And racially erotic counterpoint: europe"s discourses on sexuality cannot be charted in europe alone. Foucault misses key sites the in the production of discourse: racial obsessions and refractions of imperial discourses have not been restricted to bourgeois culture in the colonies alone. Nationalist discourses were predicated on exclusionary cultural principles. Never came to fruition because he shifted focus: power must be seen in its knowledge producing form.
