chel Foucault

he History of Sexuality
art V

The Four Domains of the

Deployment of Sexuality and the
Four Corresponding Figures
The hysterization of womenand the
figure of the hysterical woman
The pedagogization of childrens sex
and the figure of the masturbating
child
The Socialization of procreative
behaviorand the Malthusian couple
The psychiatrization of perverse
pleasureand the perverse adult

The Shift in the Modality of Power

From sovereign power over life and
death to the right of the social
body to ensure, maintain, or
develop its life (136)
At stake is the biological existence
of a populationpower situated and
exercised at the level of life and
population (137)

Power is now BIO-POWER, which

has two aims:
a) the management of the
individual body
b) the control of populations

And Guess What:

SEX is at the pivot of the two
poles (the regulation of the
population and the disciplining of
the body)

Sex is an effect of the

deployment
of sexuality (152)

The rallying point

for the
counterattack
against the
deployment of
sexuality ought
not to be sexdesire, but bodies
and pleasures

Counter-discourse: every
social discourse which involves a
politically generated truth-claim
encounters a counter-discourse
that can challenge the original
discourses legitimacy.
The struggle for power is thus
located in the struggle over
discursive knowledge.

A genealogy should be seen as a kind of

attempt to
emancipate historical knowledges from
that
subjection, to render them ... capable of
opposition
and struggle against the coercion of a
theoretical,
unitary, formal and scientific discourse.
A counter-discourse and a countermemory, running counter to standard
systems of knowledge, revealing how
knowledge is built on exclusion and

Some Foucaultian Questions about

Narrative:
1) What are the forms and
boundaries of narrative?
2) What narratives secure and/or
expose the disciplinary orders and
social and sexual imperatives?
3) What narratives mobilize
alternative possibilities,
expanding the boundaries of what
is culturally intelligible and
possible for sexual personhood?

PHEN CRANE
E BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW S

Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner, Camera

Politica (1988):
Genres hold the world in place, establishing and
enforcing a sense of propriety, of proper
boundaries which demarcate appropriate
thought, feeling, and behavior and which provide
frames, codes, and signs for constructing a
shared social reality. Genres participate in this
process by sorting out the different values and
ideals a social order requires to be internalized if
it is to survive. The traditional western, for
example, aided the construction of a social reality
in which it was believed that males appropriately
dominated the public sphere, while the traditional

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4aRryzzZLTI
Clip from Shane (barfight)

Heteronormative/heteronormativity:
The term was coined by Michael Warner in
Introduction: Fear of a Queer Planet.
The concept has roots in Gayle Rubins
notion of the sex/gender system and
Adrienne Richs notion of compulsory
heterosexuality. In general, it is a
concept that illuminates the expectations,
demands, and constraints produced when
heterosexuality is taken as normative, and
it calls into question the practices and
institutions that legitimize and privilege

arah Orne Jewett

The Queens Twin

American regionalism/Local Color Fiction

A form of Realism, with a focus on small town

characters, dialect, customs, and topography of a
particular region.

Most popular between civil war and 1900

Related to the building of national identity, linking up

disparate areas to a collective whole; drawing regions of
the U.S. into relation with each other and thus
contributing to a narrative of a unified nation that the
late 19th century sought to construct following
the divisions of the civil war.

The narrator is typically an outsider; an educated

observer from the world beyond who learns
something from the characters.

Dunnet Landing: Lesbos of the

Nineteenth Century?

1)The exploration of female

friendship and forms of all female
social space
2) Non/post reproductive identities
3) The logic of twinning
4) The fantasy modeher
attachment to the queen enables a
space of connection against the
other options of loneliness, solitude,
and singularity: she doubles herself
in a way that means she will never

ANNIE
ADAMS
FIELDS

A Theory of Fandom
Marxist-inspired analyses of
mass culture produce the vision
of isolated, passive, and
ideologically vulnerable
consumersconsumers duped
by the logic of capitalism.

Henry Jenkins in Textual Poachers

redefines certain aspects of consumer
culturesuch as fan cultureas a highly
social, engaged, empowered, and creative
activity. For Jenkins, fandom signals an
interpretive and creative community
actively appropriating the content of
television, popular culture, blockbuster
movies, etc. for its own pleasures. These
interpretive communities often form
themselves into social groups which share
similar intellectual resources and patterns
of making meaning. Fans can thus be
thought of as meaning producers and as

JUDY GARLAND

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BETTE
DAVIS

QUEEN VICTORIA