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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 Part 4, Chapter 2: Method 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 explains more fully what he means by "power." He has been arguing that we need to understand sexuality in terms of power and not in the familiar terms of repression or law, as advanced by the Repressive Hypothesis. But Foucault explains that by “power” he means something a little different from the commonplace understanding of the word. Power is not just the full collection of institutions engaged in exerting the dominance of the state over the public. Instead, Foucault gives a much more complex, somewhat elusive definition of power, which he unpacks throughou

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