UNI101Y1 : Lecture on Giddens & Foucault articles
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Memo 1: due at the latest february 9th 2011. Memo = course readings meets current issue/media representation in the media. Memo 1: apply a theory of sexuality to an issue you A memo is not a summary of readings or films. Structure, agency and discourse: theorizing sexualities through foucault and. Knowledge is power discursive knowledge that is deemed truth creates. Regimes of t ruth (e. g. medicine designates homosexuality as an abnormal development- a person whereas before sodomy was just am act: the confession becomes an integral part of modern science on sexuality (mostly medicine/ psychiatry). 65: confession becomes valid means of gathering scientific knowledge (via examinations, clinics etc) 2. confession of sex could get a root of our problems in our everyday lives since sex was seen as influencing every aspect of our lives. 3. unearthing a confession was needed because the person may not even now they need to confess.