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The history of sexuality. Volume 1, An introduction

Michel Foucault (Author), Robert Hurley (Translator)
"Michel Foucult 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."-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 1990
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Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1990
History
1 online resource
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We "other Victorians"
The repressive hypothesis. The incitement to discourse ; The perverse implantation
Scientia sexualis
The deployment of sexuality. Objective ; Method ; Domain ; Periodization
Right of death and power over life
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1978
Translation of: La volonté de savoir (Paris : Gallimard, 1976); 1st v. of Michel Foucault's Histoire de la sexualité
In English; translated from French