Title:
The history of sexuality / by Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by Robert Hurley.
Author:
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Hurley, Robert.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, <1988-1990, ©1985>
Call Number:
HQ12 .F6813 1990 V.1
Abstract:
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', Foucault attempts to disprove the thesis that Western society has seen a repression of sexuality since the 17th century and that sexuality has been unmentionable, something impossible to speak about. In the 70s, when the book was written, the sexual revolution was a fact. The ideas of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, saying that to conserve your mental health you needed to liberate your sexual energy, were popular. The past was seen as a dark age where sexuality had been something forbidden.
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random048/79007460.html
Edition:
1st Vintage books ed.
ISBN:
9780679724698
9780394751221
9780394741550
Physical Description:
volumes <2-3> ; 19 cm
Added Title:
History of sexuality : an introduction.
Use of pleasure.
Care of the self.
Contents:
v. 1. The history of sexuality : an introduction -- v. 2. The use of pleasure -- v. 3. The care of the self.
Vol. 1. The history of sexuality : an introduction. Part 1. We "other Victorians" -- Part 2. The repressive hypothesis, 1. The incitement to discourse -- 2. The peverse implantation -- Part 3. Scientia sexualis -- Part 4. The deployment of sexuality. 1. Objective -- 2. Method -- 3. Domain --4. Periodization -- Part 5. Right of death and power over life.
Vol. 2. The use of pleasure. Introduction. 1. Modifications -- 2. Forms of problematization -- 3. Morality and practice of the self --- Part 1. The moral problematization of pleasures. 1. "Aphrodisia" -- 2. "Chrēsis" -- 3. "Enkrateia" -- 4. Freedom and truth --- Part 2. Dietetics. 1. Regimen in general -- 2. The diet of pleasures -- 3. Risks and dangers -- 4. Act, expenditure, death --- Part 3. Economics. 1. The wisdom of marriage -- 2. Ischomachus' household -- 3. Three policies of moderation --- Part 4. Erotics. A problematic relation -- 2. A boy's honour -- 3. The object of pleasure --- Part 5. True love.
Vol. 3. The care of the self: Part 1. Dreaming of One's Pleasures -- 1. The Method of Artemidorus -- 2. The Analysis -- 3. Dream and Act --- Part 2. The Cultivation of the Self --- Part 3. Self and Others -- 1. The Marital Role -- 2. The Political Game --- Part 4. The Body -- 1. Galen -- 2. Are They Good? Are They Bad? -- 3. The Regimen of Pleasures -- 4. The Work of the Soul --- Part 5. The Wife -- 1. The Marriage Tie -- 2. The Question of Monopoly -- 3. The Pleasures of Marriage --- Part 6. Boys -- 1. Plutarch -- 2. Pseudo-Lucian -- 2. A New Erotics.
Added Author:
Uniform Title:
Histoire de la sexualité. English
Personal Author:
