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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 Part 4, Chapter 3: Domain Summary and Analysis | GradeSaver

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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 study guide contains a biography of Michel Foucault, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Summary In this chapter, Foucault talks about what the "domain" of a history of sexuality would be: what kinds of phenomena would need to be studied. Continuing the point that he established in Chapter 2, Foucault insists that sexuality is not something foreign to power, not something that power simply represses, controls, or manages. To the contrary, sex is a “transfer point” for relations of power between a strikingly diverse variety of subjects. In other words, sex is the focus of flows and exchanges of power between men and women, the young and the old, teachers and students, parents and c

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