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

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

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

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

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

Antigone on Butler, on Sexuality/Gender

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

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

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

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

Michel Foucault Aspects of his Thought

Michel Foucault ( ) Knowledge Power Discursive formations

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

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

HS2: Sexual Ethics

(Sexual Ethics 1) Dynamics desire acts pleasure aphrodisia

(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.”

(Sexual Ethics 3) Evaluative Criteria Need Occasion Status

“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”

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

First encounter (Attic RF)

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

Demure rejection (?), Paestum, Italy

Intercrural intercourse (archaic Attic BF vase)

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