Michel Foucault
Author
Series
Histoire de la sexualit�e volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
"This third volume of Foucault's highly acclaimed examination of the experience of sexuality in modern Western society, investigates the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek version of sexual pleasure. Foucault explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers and physicians of the era to reveal an increasing mistrust of pleasure and a growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences....
Author
Series
Histoire de la sexualit�e volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Author
Series
Histoire de la sexualité volume 4
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault made an indelible impact on Western thought. The first three volumes in his History of Sexuality-which trace cultural and intellectual notions of sexuality, arguing that it has been profoundly shaped by the power structures applied to it-constitute some of Foucault's most important work. This fourth volume posits that the origins of totalitarian self-surveillance began...
5) Power
Author
Series
Works volume 3
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
English
Description
"This volume draws together Foucault's contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, sexuality - illuminating and expanding on the themes of The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish, and the first volume of The History of Sexuality. Power also includes important...
Author
Series
History of sexuality volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Michel Foucault's 'The History of Sexuality' pioneered queer theory. In it he builds an argument grounded in a historical analysis of the word "sexuality" against the common thesis that sexuality always has been repressed in Western society. Quite the contrary: since the 17th century, there has been a fixation with sexuality creating a discourse around sexuality. It is this discourse that has created sexual minorities. In 'The History of Sexuality',...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©1980
Language
English
Description
"Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind...
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from France's Ancien Regime were often associated with excessive royal power and seen as a way for the king to imprison political opponents. In Disorderly Families, first published in French in 1982, Arlette Farge...
12) Herculine Barbin: being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century French hermaphrodite
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits suicide...
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