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    <body><![CDATA[A much more difficult Foucault - and not nearly as interesting as his history of madness.  He seems to take a long time to get started and does seem to repeat himself an awful lot.  <br/><br/>All the same, the ideas around the difference between Western and Eastern notions of sexuality are well wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11596868">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this for my Materialist Workshop/Reading Group.  We've delved into Birth of the Clinic, a few of his Lectures, and the three volumes of History of Sexuality. Foucault said that History of Sexuality was supposed to be his magnum opus. It took him nearly a decade to complete, and it is compris...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57872545">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There's some interesting juxtapositions here, but if you've read a reasonable amount of Freud, had some early exposure to Thomas Kuhn, and plowed through a lot of Max Weber (as Foucault has, compare &quot;Discipline &amp; Punish&quot; to the 2 Volume &quot;Economy &amp; Society&quot; and the more difficult ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1430301">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In the words of my professor, &quot;we're living in a post-Foucauldian world, so this will seem really self-evident, but that doesn't mean its right.&quot; Coming from that angle, I've been reading from a very critical position. I like Foucault's thesis and his examination seems pretty exhaustive, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57566113">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The title of this book is a misnomer. To be more precise, it should be &quot;Historical Relationships of Power and the Discourse on Sex.&quot; Rather than describing the development of sexual expression itself, Foucault focuses on the discourse surrounding sex. But he does so intentionally-- his cla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79479016">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What can one possibly hope to say, especially in a capsule review?  Much more accessible than I was anticipating, and the way it flipped over and then systematically deconstructed a general assumption of mine (and most people, I'd say)--namely, that the steadily increasing discourse regarding sex, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59114612">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The only book you really need to read of Foucaults (although many others are very worth reading). It is a great exercise in his prominent theory of the myth of the hierarichal origins of power. Among other interesting claims, Foucault explains how the rise of medical terminology like &quot;perverse&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64436326">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Foucault observes in <em>The History of Sexuality</em>, that confession, the trope of autobiography, “unfolds within a power relationship’”(61). The power of authority induces the subject to confess, while the power of the confessor resides in the act itself. Confessors, particularly in autobiography, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77262503">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this, I can't read anything else without seeing his influence. The relationships between power/knowledge and the construction of sexuality...he turns assumptions upside down and offers a different way of interpreting events, especially commonly held ideas about power relationships. For...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71996072">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The more I get angry at this book, the more I become intrigued.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Foucault's &quot;History of Sexuality&quot; was assigned twice over the course of my semester; for one class, our theme is the intersection between queer and race theories; for the other, a strict literary (theory) methods foundation.  As such, we discussed the text in two very different ways for ea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21514884">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[[continued from above]<br/><br/>By making himself both rubber and glue, Delany employs what James calls a &quot;diachronic, discourse-space model of writing and reading,&quot; where two time periods are present in a single text: both the time of the composition and the time of the explication, the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14469315">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh. My. Gods. Since when is an unnecisarily convoluted theory of power the mark of somebody we should praise for ever and ever amen? Ye gods. No citations, no specifics and a huge reliance on circular logic that is the antithesis of Ockham's Razor. Yuck! But say so in a Queer Theory class and you wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44480136">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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