PHIL202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Gender Role, Michel Foucault, Sexual Repression
14 Oct 2016
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In this module, we consider methodological approaches and terminology that will assist us in our exploration of sex and gender. Foucault one methodology for us to consider. It is arguably impossible to undertake the study of sex and gender without reading the great. French philosopher and social scientist, michel foucault (1926-1984). His ambitious three- volume history of sexuality (1976) is primarily concerned with the activity of sex rather than sexual taxonomies (that is, it is about having sex, not belonging to a sex). However, the stance that it adopts in its treatment of sexuality is one that informs much that we will do in this course. As a scholar, foucault analyzes discursive practices in order to try to discern the nature of the system of power that is reproduced within those practices. Let"s take a few minutes to unpack what that means. A discursive practice is habitual means of conveying meaning.
