The afirmation of a sexuality that has never been more rigorously subjugated than during the age of the hypocritical, bustling, and responsible bourgeoisie is coupled with the grandiloquence of a discourse purporting to reveal the truth about sex, modify its economy within reality, sub vert the law that governs it, and change its future. Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century Michel foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is. Anna clark is a professor of history at the university of minnesota and author of the history of sexuality in europe (routledge, 2011). Foucault revolutionized the field of the history of sexuality with his definition of the homosexual/homosexuality In the will to knowledge, foucault pointedly notes that a concrete definition of who a homosexual is and what homosexuality is only emerged beginning in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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