Posts Tagged: deployment of sexuality

Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition For my creative project, I chose to create a board game – Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition. Initially, my intent was to create a game that would test the knowledge our class gained over the course of the semester in a fun, nontraditional way. However, I […]

Regarding the deployment of sexuality, Foucault discusses four strategies that, beginning in the 18th century, were used to distinguish the working relationship of knowledge and power of sex.  The very first, the “hysterization of women’s bodies”, focuses on the woman and how mentally and physically she became a symbol of the scientia sexualis of the […]

Why is power innate but sex not? Part 5 of Foucault’s History of Sexuality focuses on different power structures, namely, how there was a shift from power from blood (in purity and spillage) to sex.  I was relieved, first of all, when he finally acknowledged the sex act itself; that sex is a social construct […]

Depressing to Optimistic Parts Four and Five of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality were quite an emotional rollercoaster.  Foucault beings by discussing the “juridico-discursive” idea of power, and then criticizing it and explaining his own theory of power – though I found both ideas quite depressing.  Foucault claims that the “juridico-discursive” idea of power underlies […]