What were the techniques, strategies and discourses used to take control of sexuality and restrict it or confine it to specific categories from the 17th to the 20th century?

Queer Sexuality

Assignment

1.How does Foucault define sex and sexuality?

2.When Foucault is talking about the production of sexuality, what does he mean when he defines sexuality as a “name that can be given to a historical construct?”

3.Which are the four strategic unities that, beginning in the 18th century until late 19th century, helped form specific mechanisms of knowledge and power centering on sex?

4.In which ways are sexuality and power related?

5.How does Foucault define power?

6.What were the techniques, strategies and discourses used to take control of sexuality and restrict it or confine it to specific categories from the 17th to the 20th century?