“This Death Which Is Not One”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penelope Deutscher
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interesting Reading ◽  
Do So

In his recently published seminars, Derrida makes a number of comments about Foucauldian epistemes, ruptures, thresholds, blood, sex and biopolitics which suggest that he was always running late for Foucault. Despite being ideally suited to do so, Derrida failed to press Foucault on ghostly sovereignty or sexual difference. In ascribing to Foucault the view that sovereignty was replaced in importance by biopower, Derrida attributed to Foucault a taste for linearity thereby reducing his work to its least interesting reading. As a means of locating Foucault’s challenges to thresholds and linearities, Deutscher revisits the families of the History of Sexuality vol 1 and Foucault’s Collège de France lectures. Deutscher argues that the segmentations and multiple techniques of Foucault’s family spaces, their sex and their strange sovereignties, manifest the countering swings of Foucault’s oscillations, a resistance to the Derridean reading.

Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume one

2021 ◽  
pp. 019145372110426
Author(s):  
Ladelle McWhorter
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Complex Idea ◽  
History Of

Does Foucault’s work on sexuality open toward the possibility of a genealogy of sex understood as binary anatomical and genetic sexual difference? I believe that it does. I argue that, if we take seriously work by Mark Jordan, Ann Laura Stoler, and Sylvia Federici, coupled with Foucault’s own statement at the end of HS1 that sex is not an anchor for sexuality but, rather, “a complex idea that was formed inside the deployment of sexuality” (152), the possibility of a time before sex or an elsewhere apart from sex becomes quite thinkable. Constructing such a genealogy would likely require careful research into ways in which Europeans imposed binary sex upon those they terrorized and colonized around the globe. Examples gestured toward here include the Yorùbá in Africa as well as a number of peoples of the Americas.

Darwin and “The Natural History of Doctresses”: The Sex War Between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James

Prospects ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 81-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Bender
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
William Dean Howells ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Race Of Life ◽  
Descent Of Man ◽  
Fair Chance ◽  
Do So

Two years after charles darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex(1871) ignited a great debate about race, culture, and sexual difference, Dr. Edward H. Clarke drew the lines in what soon became a literary war in America over the supposed differences between the sexes. In his highly appreciative review of Clarke's Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls, William Dean Howells(?) wrote that “the subject is a very delicate one to handle,” not only because it involves certain embarrassing physiological details, such as “periodicity,” but because woman is the weaker vessel in many ways, and does not always care to be reminded of it. Yet the facts of anatomy and physiology are at the bottom of many differences in the capabilities and adaptations of the two sexes for the various offices of life. The female's muscles are weaker than the male's, and she must not be expected to do so much bodily work. The female's brain is five or six ounces lighter, on the average, than the male's, and she must not be expected to do so much “cerebration” as he can do. The special relation of the female to humanity that is to be, involves many disturbances, habitual and occasional, which handicap her, often very heavily, in the race of life.

Modern Mormonism and Gender Theory in Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Taylor G. Petrey
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
World War ◽  
Gender Essentialism ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

The introduction sets the parameters of the book’s focus on Modern Mormonism in America, which arises after World War II. It further sets this period in the context of gender theory and the history of sexuality, to explore how Mormon approaches to these topics are situated between competing theories of sexual difference in modernity, gender essentialism and gender fluidity.

11. Foucault after Foucault

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-116
Author(s):  
Gary Gutting
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Large Body ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
General Theme ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Material

Foucault died leaving a large body of lectures and drafts unpublished. Of particular importance were thirteen years of lectures he delivered at the Collège de France, from 1971 to 1984. ‘Foucault after Foucault’ describes the content of these lectures, published in 1997, which exhibit the twists and turns of a mind constantly processing new material and reformulating its ideas. The lectures set out a general theme—the relation of truth and power—and show his research on sexuality was becoming complexly intertwined with studies of subjectivity, governmentality, and truth. In 2018, The Confessions of the Flesh was published, which was the next step in Foucault’s history of sexuality, dealing with the Christian Middle Ages.

scholarly journals What Is a Desiring Man?

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Agustín Colombo
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Problematic Aspect ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Human Condition

This article investigates Foucault’s account of desiring man by drawing upon History of Sexuality vol. 4, Confessions of the Flesh. In order to do so, the article focuses on Foucault’s diagnosis of the Christian elaboration of “the analytic of the subject of concupiscence” that closes Confessions of the Flesh. As the article shows, “the analytic of the subject of concupiscence” inspires Foucault’s account of desiring man. However, Foucault’s diagnosis of the Christian elaboration of “the analytic of concupiscence” proves to be debatable as it relies on a problematic interplay between Cassian’s and Saint Augustine’s account of concupiscence. The article exposes the problems that such interplay supposes by addressing the contrast between Cassian’s and Augustine’s perspective on both concupiscence and the human condition. Despite this problematic aspect of Foucault’s investigation of Christianity, the article argues that the publication of Confessions of the Flesh is central to understanding Foucault’s History of Sexuality. By providing new elements of analysis, the book reopens Foucault’s genealogical diagnosis of the formation of the medical account of sexuality and allows us to problematise new avenues for developing Foucault’s investigation in depth.

scholarly journals Wyznania, Rousseau i dyskurs edukacyjny – zarys badań w perspektywie (post)foucaultowskiej

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Helena Ostrowicka
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Regime Of Truth

The paper takes into consideration the Foucauldian concept of confession as an analytical category attractive for educational research. The article consists of three parts. Part one, based on Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collége de France and “The History of Sexuality”, contains definitions of the key concepts: “the regime of truth” and “the regime of confession”. Part two provides an overview of selected studies in which the category of confession was used in the analyses of contemporary education. The last part refers to the Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Confessions” and presents selected aspects of research on educational discourse in the light of the concept of confession.

The History of Sexuality: Interview

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheal Foucault
Keyword(s):  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
History Of

Home, Sweet Home: Negotiating Intimacy in Brazilian Elitist Closed Condominiums

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 374-395
Author(s):  
Rafael Ignacio Estrada Mejia ◽  
Carla Guerrón Guerron Montero
Keyword(s):  
Collective Mode ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collective Production ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

This article aims to decrease the cultural invisibility of the wealthy by exploring the Brazilian emergent elites and their preferred living arrangement: elitist closed condominiums (BECCs) from a micropolitical perspective.  We answer the question: What is the relationship between intimacy and subjectivity that is produced in the collective mode of existence of BECCs? To do so, we trace the history of the elite home, from the master’s house (casa grande) to contemporary closed condominiums. Following, we discuss the features of closed condominiums as spaces of segregation, fragmentation and social distinction, characterized by minimal public life and an internalized sociability. Finally, based on ethnographic research conducted in the mid-size city of Londrina (state of Paraná) between 2015 and 2017, we concentrate on four members of the emergent elite who live in BECCs, addressing their collective production of subjectivity. 

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