The Routledge Guidebook to Foucault's The History of Sexuality

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

Bibliography