1. Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality II Sex before Sexuality?

2. Agenda Procedures (cont.) Due Dates, Oral Reports, Papers Recap and Update Gender → Antigone → Butler → Sexuality (Foucault) Michel Foucault Aspects of his Thought HS 2: The Use of Pleasure Sexual Ethics, Pederastic Protocols

3. Procedures (cont.) Due Dates, Oral Reports, Papers

4. Procedures (cont.) Due Dates Oral Reports 17-Feb Symposium “Individual Progress Log” Papers topic…

5. Recap and Update Gender → Antigone → Butler → Sexuality (Foucault)

6. Antigone on Butler, on Sexuality/Gender

7. Questions Does play validate sexuality/gender as… essence? social construction? Does play validate view of family as… socially embedded symbol? moral absolute?

8. Answers… b using ant to validate ideas as metaphor not reading with soph b misreading h/l as misreading play b on h/l illuminates mutiple interpretations hence good play critical thinking b sees manly manly ant, but not necessarily correctly

9. Gender as analytic concept… social / cultural expectations associations relative to, yet abstracted from, biological sex

10. Foucault on Sexuality?… in relation to anc greece not such a defined thing not “sexualities” not same moral dilemma as in christian times rather, excess v moderation very different attitudes to sexual ethics diff ethical consideration relating homoertic relationships pleasure principal – physical contact pleasures problematize intensity and frequency their “sexuality” the more open-ended concept aphrodisia not homo-/hetero- sexual, still passive/active

11. Michel Foucault Aspects of his Thought

12. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Knowledge Power Discursive formations

13. History of Sexuality (1976-1984) 1. An Introduction “Repressive Hypothesis” “Perverse Implantation” 2. The Use of Pleasure “Genealogy” 3. The Care of the Self Late-antique “mistrust of pleasures…”

14. HS 2: The Use of Pleasure Sexual Ethics, Pederastic Protocols

15. HS2: Sexual Ethics

16. (Sexual Ethics 1) Dynamics desire acts pleasure aphrodisia

17. (Sexual Ethics 2) Variables Degree / frequency moderation excess Polarity active passive “For a man, excess and passivity were the two main forms of immorality in the practice of the aphrodisia.”

18. (Sexual Ethics 3) Evaluative Criteria Need Occasion Status

19. “Sexual-Social Isomorphism” male~female masculine~feminine penetrator~penetrated active~passive dominant~submissive senior (in status)~junior moderate (sophron)~immoderate free~slave aka “asymmetry hypothesis”

20. Pederasty — Basics Relationship erastes eromenos reciprocity, asymmetry (Quasi-)institutionalization Competition Dover, K. J. Greek Homosexuality. 2 ed. Cambridge, Mass., 1989.

22. First encounter (Attic RF)

23. Rooster gift (Attic RF) ho pais kalos, “the boy is attractive”

24. Demure rejection (?), Paestum, Italy

25. Intercrural intercourse (archaic Attic BF vase)

26. Is Foucault’s Greece a “Foreign” Place? […]