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. “the history of sexuality” by michel foucault
Interview first published in power/knowledge Foucault’s interrogation of the “repressive hypothesis,” the notion that western societies have systematically suppressed sexuality since t.
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