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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 Part 3: Scientia Sexualis 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.

Foucault argues that the growing proliferation of sexual discourse in the 19th century made sex an issue of increasingly urgent and increasingly scientific knowledge. Moral concern about proper sexual conduct took place alongside scientific (and, by today’s standards, pseudo-scientific) speculation about degeneracy, aberrance, and other dangers to the wellbeing of society and even of the species. Knowledge about sex held the promise to help reverse these undesirable processes. Scientific interest in sex was full of errors and speculation, as evidenced by how little the study of human sexuality

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