In his History of Sexuality, Foucault provides us with a new accountability for the broadness of our perversions. He grants the individual and the society a space for discussion, unbound by singular form or direction. Noting that the trajectory of sexuality is non-unilateral –the same goes for the discourse surrounding it– Foucault dissects the untenable […]
One of the issues that I believe needs to be addressed in Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality is the divergence in the ways sexuality is viewed, depending on geographical region and religious pockets. As we mentioned in class, many individuals feel that barriers which bar sex from being discussed freely and without any sense […]
There is nothing more delightfully frustrating than reading a book that forces all my preconceived notions about a topic into oblivion. I had long assumed that, until recently, society repressed sexuality, giving rise to hatred and embarrassment over the subject. Foucault argues against the theory of repression and claims that discourse on sex was actually […]
