The history of sexuality: An introduction, volume I

by Foucault, Michel (1978)

Key Passage

One of the great innovations in the techniques of power in the eighteenth century was theemergence 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)

Keywords

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

Themes

History of Sexuality, Foucault Citations

Links to Reference

• https://queertheories.uark.edu/files/2019/05/Outline_of_Michel_Foucault_The_History_o.pdf

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