WEEK 1: POWER, RESISTANCE, AND SEXUALITY (FOUCAULT)
Section outline
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Required readings:
1. Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), pp.1–13.Further Recommended Reading:
Julian Jackson, "Introduction" in Living In Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics, and Morality In France From the Liberation to AIDS, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009 (Selected excerpts pp 4-6). ==> We'll read the excerpts in class together.
Chloe Taylor, “The History of sexuality and Queer Theory”, in The Routledge Guidebook to Foucault's The History of Sexuality (Oxford: Routledge, 2017), pp 173 – 200.
David Halperin, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (Oxford: OUP, 1995), pp 15 – 37.
Nikki Sullivan, “Queer: a question of being or a question of doing?”, in A critical introduction to queer theory (New York: NUP, 2003), pp 37 – 57.
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Julian Jackson, "Introduction" in Living In Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics, and Morality In France From the Liberation to AIDS, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009
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