WGS373H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Notes on foucault"s history of sexuality: foucault challenges the notion that 18c marked by a repressive hypothesis. Ways to attempt to repress sexuality: foucault started studying power as a discourse. By discourse we mean about how it is constituted by land and language. In the 18th c: it was a capitalist society. We had very clear class structure coming into being. It was a time where we saw a lot of regulations and problems with sexuality. Women were constituted as repressed, and not being sexual. And sex itself was regulated by certain individuals and institutions: he became interested where this discourse came from and why it had taken root, he"s saying that: this discourse about sexuality is not true. If anything, there is a prefiration on sexual discourse. We need to understand how that is taking place and why. It was contained and controlled but not repressed according to. It was contained through discourses that managed it.
