David M. Halper , Michel Fouult, Jean Le Boux, and the Gay ScienceLost and Found: An Introductn, Cril Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Sprg 2011), pp. 371-380
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MICHEL FOUULT WAS A GAY MAN WHOSE WRG ABOUT SEXUALY WAS RMED BY HIS OWN LIVED EXPERIENCE. WHAT WAS HIS VIEW ABOUT SEXUALY EVERY CULTURE?
Stemmg om a pedagogil tert explorg ways of theoretilly amg classroom discsns the topic of gay-for-pay, this chapter is anized to two sectns. In the first sectn, I engage wh a close readg of Fouult’s (Michel Fouult:... * michel foucault gay *
What few people know about Fouult, apart om orthodox leftists, is that Fouult beme an apologist for palism precisely on acunt of his homosexualy. Th sexualy, and Fouult’s se homosexualy, are ele enterpris pennt upon leisure time. John D’E, one of the most proment Fouult scholars and himself a gay activist, explaed Fouult’s sights this way:.
It has ma possible the formatn of urban muni of lbians and gay men and, more recently, of a polics based on a sexual inty. Fouult was not alone this “disvery” among gay, trans, and femist activists and “scholars.
Anythg that threatened this realy would prove harmful to homosexuals and to women (acrdg to Firtone).
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”[4] The end rult of this new speci of sexualy was the homosexual man, “The neteenth-century homosexual beme a personage, a past, a se study, and a childhood, addn to beg a type of life form, and a morphology, wh an discreet anatomy and possibly a myster physlogy. It was everywhere prent him: at the root of all his actns bee was their sid and fely active prciple… The sodome had been a temporary aberratn; the homosexual was now a speci.
In his study of the history of sexualy and the birth of the new speci of human: the homosexual, Fouult nclud several thgs which rg te for the ted and prcient observer of today.
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First, the homosexual is a product of morny. More specifilly, the homosexual is a product of palism and technology.
Send, homosexualy and other forms of alternative sexuali flourish wealthy ci where leisure is readily accsible. Third, homosexualy and other forms of sexual liberaly are pennt on high gre of wealth and technologil transformatn makg labor easier and, therefore, leadg to greater leisure time.