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The Routledge guidebook to Foucault's The history of sexuality / Chloë Taylor.
Van Pelt Library HQ12.F683 T39 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Chloë, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Routledge guides to the great books
- The Routledge guides to the great books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Histoire de la sexualité.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Histoire de la sexualité (Foucault, Michel).
- Sex customs--History.
- Sex customs.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 261 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Contents:
- 1 The will to know 9
- Questioning the repressive hypothesis 9
- Confession 21
- The social construction of sexualities 30
- The perverse implantation 36
- 2 Power over life 42
- Objective: regicide 42
- Method: or how to theorize power without the king 55
- Power is everywhere 56
- Power is war 58
- Power is relational 59
- Power is immanent 62
- Power comes from below 64
- Power relations are intentional and non-subjective 65
- Power produces resistance 67
- 3 Women, children, couples and 'perverts' 73
- Denaturalizing sex 73
- Domain: the family 77
- Women 88
- Children 91
- Couples 95
- 'Perverts' 99
- Periodization 104
- 4 Sex, racism and death 109
- From sanguinity to sexuality 109
- Foucault's genealogy of modern racism 115
- From spectacles of death to genocidal dreams 123
- Executions 127
- Suicide 129
- War 130
- Letting die 133
- De-sexing sexuality 138
- 5 The History of Sexuality and feminist theory 141
- Feminist tensions 142
- The repressive hypothesis, identity politics and the feminist sex wars 146
- Consciousness raising, confession and experience 152
- Feminist bodies and pleasures 166
- 6 The History of Sexuality and queer theory 173
- From feminism to queer theory 173
- Troubling gender 176
- 'A queer voice' 183
- Canonizing Foucault 194
- 'The imperial prude' 200
- 7 A genealogy of the desiring subject 207
- Revising the project 207
- Sexual austerity and the monogamous idea! 215
- Using sex 217
- Sexual anxiety 218
- 'The antimony of the boy' 219
- A male ethics 222
- Ethics versus codes 226
- Scale 227
- Positions and partners 229
- Sexual binaries 231
- Sex and health 233
- Sex without psychology 234
- The use of The Use of Pleasure 237.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415717830
- 0415717833
- 9780415717847
- 0415717841
- OCLC:
- 965738253
- Publisher Number:
- 99969701847
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