Critically discuss Foucault’s view that in the modern West sexuality is implicated in a form of power which makes individuals subjects.
Power has been a concept with which political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and myriad others have been concerned at the very heart of their disciplines. It a reality which in this century has been used and abused to what Foucault calls ‘pathological’ extremes, but the understanding of power is now more than ever too of crucial importance to the construction of the self, particularly in the idea we have of our own sexuality. This essay …
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