In The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault writes:[S]ex is the most speculative, most ideal, and most internal element in adeployment of sexuality organized by power in its grip on bodies and theirmateriality, their forces, energies, sensations,and pleasures.(155)Using 9 readings from the syllabus, meditate on what this meansin the form of a well-organized 7-9page essay (you don’t have to analyze each reading extensively, just use them as evidence in your argument).Remembering that Foucault alsoargues that “the notion of’sex’ made it possible to group together, in an artificial unity,anatomical elements, biological functions, conducts, sensations, and pleasures, andit enabledone to make use of this fictitious unity as a causal principle, an omnipresent meaning, asecret to be discovered everywhere” (154), reflect on the ways in which”sexuality” came to organizeour thinking about who we are and how we live. Why did sex and sexuality come to serve as organizing principlesfor our knowledge about what makes humans human? How havesex and sexuality been used to explain the patterns that weproduce and reproduce as we move through our lives, both individually and collectively? Why did sexuality become a not only a medical but also a politicaland economic concern? How didsex come to appear to produce and reproduce (literally) different races and different classes? Whydo notions of class and raceembed ideas about sexuality? Dosex and sexuality come to have different meanings and effects on people of different classes? Of different races?If so how, and why? If not,why not?
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