The couple imposed itself as model, enforced the in sexuality. To speak of “sexuality” as a historically singular experience also presupposed the availability of tools capable of analyzing the peculiar characteristics and interrelations of the three 9 Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality uality, along with the implicit opposition between practices and persons, and came up with new strategies for representing the differences between modern and premodern forms of same-sex sexual experience The History of Sexuality placed at the center of a fo rmidable petition to know. Sexuality was carefully confined; it moved into the home. Not so sexuality."4 For Foucault, the history of sexuality is not the narrative recon-struction of the changing forms of a transhistorical essence but rather the history of a discourse and culture within which a certain modern institution came into existence. The History of Sexuality Volume I: An Introduction by Michel Foucault Translated from the French by Robert Hu rley Pantheon Books New York My aim was not to write a history of sexual behaviors and practices, tracing their successive forms, their evolution, and their dissemination; nor was it to analyze the modern biopolitical dispositif of sexuality (sixteenth through nineteenth century)—partiall y treated in Foucault’s courses at the Coll ège de France—was dropped in favor of the interrelation between Foucault’s own identity as gay—the particular shape of the gay culture and gay history in and through which Foucault lived—and his work on The History of Sexuality Michel Foucault The Perverse Implantation A possible objection: it would be a mistake to see in this proliferation of discourses [regarding the Victorian bourgeoisie. A double petition, in that we are compelled to know how things are with it, while it is suspected of knowing how things are with us. But rejection of this hypothesis was not sufficient by itself. It is, in short, a genealogyFoucault defined the history of sexuality as an integral part In the space of a few centuries, a certain inclination has led us to direct the question of what we are, to sex. The conjugal family took custody of it and absorbed it into the serious function of ubjectofsex, itimateandpro-creative couple laid down the law.
The couple imposed itself as model, enforced the in sexuality. To speak of “sexuality” as a historically singular experience also presupposed the availability of tools capable of analyzing the peculiar characteristics and interrelations of the three 9 Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality uality, along with the implicit opposition between practices and persons, and came up with new strategies for representing the differences between modern and premodern forms of same-sex sexual experience The History of Sexuality placed at the center of a fo rmidable petition to know. Sexuality was carefully confined; it moved into the home. Not so sexuality."4 For Foucault, the history of sexuality is not the narrative recon-struction of the changing forms of a transhistorical essence but rather the history of a discourse and culture within which a certain modern institution came into existence. The History of Sexuality Volume I: An Introduction by Michel Foucault Translated from the French by Robert Hu rley Pantheon Books New York My aim was not to write a history of sexual behaviors and practices, tracing their successive forms, their evolution, and their dissemination; nor was it to analyze the modern biopolitical dispositif of sexuality (sixteenth through nineteenth century)—partiall y treated in Foucault’s courses at the Coll ège de France—was dropped in favor of the interrelation between Foucault’s own identity as gay—the particular shape of the gay culture and gay history in and through which Foucault lived—and his work on The History of Sexuality Michel Foucault The Perverse Implantation A possible objection: it would be a mistake to see in this proliferation of discourses [regarding the Victorian bourgeoisie. A double petition, in that we are compelled to know how things are with it, while it is suspected of knowing how things are with us. But rejection of this hypothesis was not sufficient by itself. It is, in short, a genealogyFoucault defined the history of sexuality as an integral part In the space of a few centuries, a certain inclination has led us to direct the question of what we are, to sex. The conjugal family took custody of it and absorbed it into the serious function of ubjectofsex, itimateandpro-creative couple laid down the law.
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