The history of sexuality (french Michel foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze. A single locus of sexuality was acknowledged in social space as well as at the heart of every household, but it was a utilitarian and fertile one
The rest had only to re main vague In the will to knowledge, foucault pointedly notes that a concrete definition of who a homosexual is and what homosexuality is only emerged beginning in the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Proper demeanor avoided contact with other bodies, and verbal decency sanitized one's speech
Michel foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is. Foucault revolutionized the field of the history of sexuality with his definition of the homosexual/homosexuality
