historyofsexuality(ii).pptVIP

History of Sexuality (II) The Repressive Hypothesis Part II: 1The Incitement of Discourse The age of repression The proliferation of the discourses concerning sex The infinite task of telling …sex Sex and population management The distribution of speech and silence the manifold mechanisms of the control of sex 17th Century, the beginning of the age of repression Without even having to pronounce the word, modern prudishness was able to ensure that one did not speak of sex, merely through the interplay of prohibitions that referred back to one another: instances of muteness which, by dint of