A Foucauldian Analysis of Homosexuality

Autor/in	Drazenovich, George
Titel	A Foucauldian Analysis of Homosexuality
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44 (2012) 3, S.259-275 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00653.x
Schlagwörter	Homosexuality; Cultural Context; Postmodernism; Ideology; Medicine; Epistemology; Educational Philosophy; Social Environment; Discourse Analysis; Social History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homosexualität; Postmoderne; Ideologie; Medizin; Erkenntnistheorie; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Soziales Umfeld; Diskursanalyse; Sozialgeschichte
Abstract	The present research paper approaches homosexuality from a Foucauldian perspective. Foucault's place and standing in a postmodern historical and cultural context will be explained. The paper outlines how homosexuality has been historically constructed and socially constituted. How sexuality became understood as a particular form of discourse, that is as a science, will be explored particularly with regard to the strategic use of confession as a producer of knowledge. I will present how homosexuality, as a medicalized, ontological identity was implanted in bodies and an entire pathological population was created. To reverse an excessive medicalized discourse of homosexuality, Foucault's prescription of moving to the care of self and predicating sexuality on the pleasure of bodies as opposed to scientific or clinical ideology will be discussed. Such critical analysis facilitates new imaginative spaces that can enable educators to engage in meaningful and informed dialogue around the various discourses surrounding homosexuality in a postmodern historical and cultural context. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10