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  2. The History of Sexuality - Wikipedia

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    The History of Sexuality (French: L'Histoire de la sexualité) is a four-volume study of sexuality in the Western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive object and separate sphere of life and argues that the notion that every individual has a sexuality is a relatively recent development in Western ...

  3. French petitions against age of consent laws - Wikipedia

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    Michel Foucault argued that it is intolerable to assume that a minor is incapable of giving meaningful consent to sexual relations. [3] Foucault also believed consent, as a concept, was a "contractual notion", and that it was not a sufficient measure of whether harm was being conducted. [ 2 ]

  4. Michel Foucault - Wikipedia

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    In Foucault's 1971 televised debate with Noam Chomsky, Foucault argued against the possibility of any fixed human nature, as posited by Chomsky's concept of innate human faculties. Chomsky argued that concepts of justice were rooted in human reason, whereas Foucault rejected the universal basis for a concept of justice. [ 236 ]

  5. Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France - Wikipedia

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    This was correlated to three terms; firstly 'measure' "a means of establishing or restoring order, the right order, in the combat of men or the elements; but also a matrix of mathematical and physical knowledge."(treated in more detail in The Will To Knowledge lectures of 1971); Secondly the 'inquiry' "a means of establishing or restoring facts ...

  6. Biopower - Wikipedia

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    Biopower (or biopouvoir in French), coined by French social theorist Michel Foucault, [1] refers to various means by which modern nation states control their populations.In Foucault's work, it has been used to refer to practices of public health, regulation of heredity, and risk regulation, among many other regulatory mechanisms often linked less directly with literal physical health.

  7. ‘Woke’ Gen Z men are actually more likely than baby ... - AOL

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    The data is in stark contrast to what most believe about men today versus their “pale, stale, and male” predecessors: The public was most likely to think the oldest group of men believe equal ...

  8. Biopolitics - Wikipedia

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    In the work of Foucault, biopolitics refers to the style of government that regulates populations through "biopower" (the application and impact of political power on all aspects of human life). [3] [5] Morley Roberts, in his 1938 book Bio-politics argued that a correct model for world politics is "a loose association of cell and protozoa ...

  9. Discipline and Punish - Wikipedia

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    Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault.It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.