The Routledge Guidebook to Foucault's The History of Sexuality

Introduction Chapter One: The Will to Know Questioning the Repressive Hypothesis Confession The Social Construction of Sexualities The Perverse Implantation Chapter Two: Power Over Life Objective: Regicide Method: or How to Theorize Power without the King Power is everywhere Power is war Power is relational Power is immanent Power comes from below Power relations are intentional and non-subjective Power produces resistance Chapter Three: Women, Children, Couples and ‘Perverts’ Denaturalizing Sex Domain: The Family Women Children Couples ‘Perverts’ Periodization: Retelling the History of Sexuality Chapter Four: Sex, Racism, and Death From Sanguinity to Sexuality Foucault’s Genealogy of Modern Racism From Spectacles of Death to the Management of Morbidity Executions Suicide War Letting Die De-sexing sexuality Chapter Five: The History of Sexuality and Feminist Theory Feminist Tensions The Repressive Hypothesis, Identity Politics, and the Feminist Sex Wars Consciousness Raising, Confession, and Experience Feminist Bodies and Pleasures Chapter Six: The History of Sexuality and Queer Theory From Feminism to Queer Theory ‘A Queer Voice’ Canonizing Foucault ‘The Imperial Prude’ Chapter Seven: A Genealogy of the Desiring Subject Revising the Project Sexual Austerity and the Monogamous Ideal Using Sex Sexual Anxiety ‘The antimony of the boy’ A Male Ethics Ethics versus Codes Scale Positions and Partners Sexual Binaries Sex and Health Sex without Psychology The Use of The Use of Pleasure Bibliography