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Foucault, Michel The history of sexuality: An introduction, volume I 1978 p.25 Book Foucault Citations, History of Sexuality Foucault, Sexuality, Repression, Power, Resistance, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism
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The history of sexuality: An introduction, volume I

by Foucault, Michel (1978)

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One of the great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was the emergence of "population" as an economic and political problem: population as wealth, population as manpower or labor capacity, population balanced between its own growth and the resources it commanded. (p.25)

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Foucault, Sexuality, Repression, Power, Resistance, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism

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Foucault Citations, History of Sexuality

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