A single locus of sexuality was acknowledged in social space as well as at the heart of every household, but it was a utilitarian and fertile one The rest had only to re main vague Proper demeanor avoided contact with other bodies, and verbal decency sanitized one's speech 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. 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. Part 4 outlines foucault’s theories about the history of sexuality, built upon his refutation of the repressive hypothesis Rather than repressing sexuality, he says, power deploys sexuality for its own purposes Foucault systematically refutes accepted hypotheses about how power functions. Foucault reframes how we think about sexuality, arguing that, contrary to popular belief, discourses of sexuality were not repressed in the victorian period.
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