UNI101Y1 Chapter Notes -Sexology, Paradigm Shift, Havelock Ellis
5 Jan 2014
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Foucault said that sometime in the nineteenth century the homosexual became a case history (153) What he meant was that the case history helped bring the idea of the homosexual into existence (154) Foucault identified examination as a main form of disciplinary power, and this examination makes each person a case, and the individual then becomes an object of knowledge and a conduit for power relations (154) George chauncey argued against foucault that doctors were investigating a subculture rather than creating one (154) There are debates in many other fields as well about how discourse and the material world affect each other and affect our knowledge of epochs (154) The material and the discursive worlds are not actually mutually exclusive - they can coexist as a dynamic system (154) If doctors didn"t invent the homosexual, then what did they do? (154) They translated male-male sexual experiences into cases of insanity, perversion, and homosexuality (154)
