Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things download epub
by Ann Laura Stoler
The central argument of the book is that race and racism, as they were codified in the colonies, played a constitutive part in the making of the European bourgeois self.
The central argument of the book is that race and racism, as they were codified in the colonies, played a constitutive part in the making of the European bourgeois self. This claim has now become a central tenet in the field of post-colonial studies, and various authors have presented similar arguments.
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines volume one of History of Sexuality in an unexplored light. She asks why Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. She asks why there has been such a muted engagement with this work among students of colonialism for whom issues of sexuality and power are so essential.
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Arguing that a history of European nineteenth-century sexuality must also be a history of race, it will change the way we think about Foucault.
Ann Laura Stoler in Race and the Education of Desire examines the factors that went into the nascence of another subject class – the 19th century bourgeois European, tying her deliberations to the constructions and definitions of both the Orient and the Occident.
I. Colonial Studies and the History of Sexuality. Placing Race in the History of Sexuality
Durham : Duke University Press. I. II. Placing Race in the History of Sexuality. III. Toward a Genealogy of Racisms: The 1976 Lectures at the College de France. IV. Cultivating Bourgeois Bodies and Racial Selves. V. Domestic Subversions and Children's Sexuality. She asks why there has been such a muted engagement with this work among students of colonialism for whom issues of sexuality and power are so essential
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. Drawing on Foucault’s little-known 1976 College de France lectures, Stoler addresses his treatment of the relationship between biopower, bourgeois sexuality, and what he identified as racisms of the state.
Carnal Knowledge and Imperial power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).

ISBN: 0822316781
Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting
Subcategory: Psychology & Counseling
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press Books (October 4, 1995)
Pages: 256 pages
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