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Why is power innate but sex not? Part 5 of Foucault’s History of Sexuality focuses on different power structures, namely, how there was a shift from power from blood (in purity and spillage) to sex.  I was relieved, first of all, when he finally acknowledged the sex act itself; that sex is a social construct […]

Depressing to Optimistic Parts Four and Five of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality were quite an emotional rollercoaster.  Foucault beings by discussing the “juridico-discursive” idea of power, and then criticizing it and explaining his own theory of power – though I found both ideas quite depressing.  Foucault claims that the “juridico-discursive” idea of power underlies […]