Foucault Sexual Repression Essay

Foucault would be intrigued with our discussions of separatism because we address it in the opposite way that he approaches sexual repression. Foucault does not address why we are sexual repression but why we emphasis it; minoritized or racial groups resist emphasising intra group dynamics like separatism, but will discuss why and how this separatism happens. Foucault doubts that sexual repression has lessen throughout time in a linear formation. Similarly, women facing unwilling separatism doubt that women are more liberated today, but instead feel like the oppression has shifted from one source, to two. Foucault would also agree with my solution to the act of imposing western views onto a non-western society. He refuted the claim that in …show more content…
If these problems stay in the shadows, the power can never be produced through discourse. According to Foucault, we gain free expression and knowledge by opening up a discourse around hidden sex. This discourse allowed sex to enter the public sphere and become medicalized. In fact, the mere discussion and confession of sex is considered a healing process. The same values can be applied to the reason we seek figures as the embodiment of issues. The problem with this approach to fixing intersectional issues is that it creates a paradox. When we limit our view to one representative of women affected by intersectionality, we fail to address issues outside their single experience with it. This is then described as a lack of methodology(Nash 2008, 10 - 13). If we could open a dialogue between groups separated by intersectionality we could gain the knowledge we need to close the divide between us. Lastly, Foucault loves discussing power and it’s many attributes. This power he describes is always relational, there is a being in power and an obedient person submitting to this power. The power is now considered law, much like our social