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Article: The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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By ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 272. $39.95 (cloth).
Is it possible any longer to consider writing a history of modern sexuality that does hot, in some sense, wrestle with the ideas of Michel Foucault? Just as a generation or two ago obligatory references to Freud would have seasoned any such history, Foucault's often cryptic writings and comments on the history of sexuality and his thoughts about "technologies of the self" have established a line of questioning that now serves as a center of intellectual gravity for research in the field: one might be drawn to it or feel compelled to resist it, but it is a force that ...