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Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality II Sex before Sexuality? Agenda Procedures (cont.) Recap and Update Gender → Antigone → Butler → Sexuality (Foucault) Michel Foucault Due Dates, Oral Reports, Papers Aspects of his Thought HS 2: The Use of Pleasure Sexual Ethics, Pederastic Protocols Procedures (cont.) Due Dates, Oral Reports, Papers Procedures (cont.) Due Dates Oral Reports 17-Feb Symposium “Individual Progress Log” Papers topic… Recap and Update Gender → Antigone → Butler → Sexuality (Foucault) Antigone on Butler, on Sexuality/Gender Questions Does play validate sexuality/gender as… essence? social construction? Does play validate view of family as… socially embedded symbol? moral absolute? Answers… b using ant to validate ideas as metaphor not reading with soph b misreading h/l as misreading play b on h/l illuminates mutiple interpretations hence good play critical thinking b sees manly manly ant, but not necessarily correctly Gender as analytic concept… social / cultural expectations associations relative to, yet abstracted from, biological sex Foucault on Sexuality?… in relation to anc greece not such a defined thing not same moral dilemma as in christian times diff ethical consideration relating homoertic relationships pleasure principal – physical contact pleasures problematize intensity and frequency their “sexuality” the more open-ended concept rather, excess v moderation very different attitudes to sexual ethics not “sexualities” aphrodisia not homo-/hetero- sexual, still passive/active Michel Foucault Aspects of his Thought Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Knowledge Power Discursive formations History of Sexuality (1976-1984) 1. An Introduction 2. The Use of Pleasure 3. “Repressive Hypothesis” “Perverse Implantation” “Genealogy” The Care of the Self Late-antique “mistrust of pleasures…” HS 2: The Use of Pleasure Sexual Ethics, Pederastic Protocols HS2: Sexual Ethics (Sexual Ethics 1) Dynamics desire pleasure aphrodisia acts (Sexual Ethics 2) Variables Degree / frequency moderation excess Polarity active passive “For a man, excess and passivity were the two main forms of immorality in the practice of the aphrodisia.” (Sexual Ethics 3) Need Occasion Status Evaluative Criteria “Sexual-Social Isomorphism” male ~ female masculine ~ feminine penetrator ~ penetrated active dominant senior (in status) moderate (sophron) ~ ~ ~ ~ passive submissive junior immoderate free ~ slave aka “asymmetry hypothesis” Pederasty — Basics Relationship erastes eromenos reciprocity, asymmetry (Quasi-)institutionalization Competition Dover, K. J. Greek Homosexuality. 2 ed. Cambridge, Mass., 1989. First encounter (Attic RF) ho pais kalos, “the boy is attractive” Rooster gift (Attic RF) Demure rejection (?), Paestum, Italy Intercrural intercourse (archaic Attic BF vase) Is Foucault’s Greece a “Foreign” Place? […]