The history of sexuality / by Michel Foucault ; translated from the French by Robert Hurley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1978 (v.1)Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: 168 p. (v.1) ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 0394740262
Uniform titles:
  • Histoire de la sexualité. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.709 F821h v.1
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. "Chresis" -- 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.
Summary: 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.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

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. "Chresis" -- 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.

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.

Translation of Histoire de la sexualite.

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