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Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox and Chris Nealon

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Chidi's Narrative of Homosexuality and Sodomy

Foucault imagines the scene that you're describing is a unidirectional thing. Chidi says sexuality was a field of contestation across which different political actors in different classes could sort of like assert themselves against each other. So there's an opportunism in the bourgeoisie that sees its struggle with one enemy as providing tools for its struggle with another. And so recurrent in Chidi's story of homosexuality and sodomy that I think is actually a central difference between him and Foucault if that makes sense.

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