Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: The Will to Know
Questioning the Repressive Hypothesis
Confession
The Social Construction of Sexualities
The Perverse Implantation
Chapter Two: Power Over Life
Objective: Regicide
Method: or How to Theorize Power without the King
Power is everywhere
Power is war
Power is relational
Power is immanent
Power comes from below
Power relations are intentional and non-subjective
Power produces resistance
Chapter Three: Women, Children, Couples and ‘Perverts’
Denaturalizing Sex
Domain: The Family
Women
Children
Couples
‘Perverts’
Periodization: Retelling the History of Sexuality
Chapter Four: Sex, Racism, and Death
From Sanguinity to Sexuality
Foucault’s Genealogy of Modern Racism
From Spectacles of Death to the Management of Morbidity
Executions
Suicide
War
Letting Die
De-sexing sexuality
Chapter Five: The History of Sexuality and Feminist Theory
Feminist Tensions
The Repressive Hypothesis, Identity Politics, and the Feminist Sex Wars
Consciousness Raising, Confession, and Experience
Feminist Bodies and Pleasures
Chapter Six: The History of Sexuality and Queer Theory
From Feminism to Queer Theory
‘A Queer Voice’
Canonizing Foucault
‘The Imperial Prude’
Chapter Seven: A Genealogy of the Desiring Subject
Revising the Project
Sexual Austerity and the Monogamous Ideal
Using Sex
Sexual Anxiety
‘The antimony of the boy’
A Male Ethics
Ethics versus Codes
Scale
Positions and Partners
Sexual Binaries
Sex and Health
Sex without Psychology
The Use of The Use of Pleasure
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