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Foucault, Michel The history of sexuality: An introduction, volume I 1978 p.36 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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All this garrulous attention which has us in a stew over sexuality, is it not motivated by one basic concern: to ensure population, to reproduce labor capacity, to perpetuate the form of social relations: in short, to constitute a sexuality that is economically useful and politically conservative? (p.36)

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

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Foucault Citations, History of Sexuality

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