Subject of Sexuality in a Contemporary Disciplinary Society: What We Learn from M. Foulcault and J. Butler about Ourselves

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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.13How to use a DOI?

Keywords

control; discourse; gender; identity; power; sexuality; subject; M. Foucault; J. Butler

Abstract

The thesis about "the repressed sexuality" is opposed by the theory of discoursive and disciplinary control elaborated by M. Foucault and enhanced by a number of authors, including J. Butler. In the present article the authors study the essential claims of this theory and offer an analysis of what happens, in accordance with it, to the subject of sexuality in the contemporary society. Is the sexuality an object of suppression or its instrument? Does sexuality precede the disciplinary power or is it formed by it? Is there such thing as sexuality or are there multiple sexualities? How does the process of subjection produce the subject vulnerable to the effects of power and its abuse?

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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