Monday, June 6, 2016

The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault

As with our post on "Discipline and Punish" (which can be found by clicking this link), we have included a wide range of sources from multiple disciplines because his influence reaches beyond any one discipline.


Primary Sources:

1) Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Random House Inc., 1990. Print.


2) Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Random House Inc., 1990. Print.


3) Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Random House Inc., 1988. Print.


Secondary Sources:

Books:

1) Huffer, Lynn. Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Print.

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2) Spencer, Scott, Helmut Puff , and Dagmar Herzog. Eds. After The History of Sexuality: German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. Print.

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3) Lamour, David H. J., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter. Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Print.

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Journal Articles:

1) Boyarin, Daniel, and Elizabeth A. Castelli. "Introduction: Foucault's The History of Sexuality" The Fourth Volume, or, A Field Left Fallow of Others to Till." Journal of the History of Sexuality 10.3/4 (2001): 357-374. Web.

2) Jordan, Mark A. "Touching and Acting, or the Closet of Abjection." Journal of the History of Sexuality 10.2 (2001) 180-184. Web.

3) Ball, Kelly H. "More or Less Raped": Foucault, Causality, and Feminist Critiques of Sexual Violence." philoSOPHIA 3.1 (2013): 52-68. Web.

4) Rehn-DeBraal, Merritt. "Translating Foucault: A Critique of Sexuality for Trauma Survivors." philoSOPHIA 3.1 (2013): 69-83. Web.

5) Hengehold, Laura. "Lynn Huffer's Mad for Foucault: An Analysis of Historical Eros." philoSOPHIA 1.2 (2011): 226-238. Web.

6) Tell, David. "Rhetoric and Power: An Inquiry into Foucault's Critique of Confession." Philosophy and Rhetoric 43.2 (2010): 95-117. Web.

7) Dunn, Jennifer, and Vik Tennley. "Virginity for Sale: A Foucauldian Moment in the History of Sexuality." Sexuality & Culture 18.3 (2014): 487-504. Web.

8) Ehlers, Nadine. "Onerous Passions: Colonial Anti:Miscegenation Rhetoric and The History of Sexuality." Patterns of Prejudice (2011): 45.4. Web.

9) Elden, Stuart. "The Problem of Confession: The Production Failure of Foucault's History of Sexuality." Journal for Cultural Research 9.1 (2005): 23-41. Web.

10) Halperin, David M. "Is There a History of Sexuality?" History and Theory 28.3 (1989): 257-274. Web.

11) Dean, Carolyn J. "The Productive Hypothesis: Foucault, Gender, and The History of Sexuality." History and Theory 33.3 (1994): 271-296. Web.

12) Lochrie, Karma. "Desiring Foucault." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27.1 (1997): 3-16. Web.

13) Berard, T.J. "Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, and the Reformation of Social Theory." Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 29.3 (1999): 203-227. Web.

Video:

1) Lecture by Christina Hendricks.  A good introduction to this book.  She situates this work historically and hits on all the major points.


2) A talk on Foucault at a conference held by Hofstra Universtiy.  The speaker does a good job a discussing Foucault's work and its implications.





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