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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"
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The Politics of Sexual Repression in Western Society
Foucault has been vulnerable to interpretations that denier minimize the reality of sexual repression in a political sense. Foucault makes it abundantly clear that he is not denying the existence of sexual repression so much as inscribing it within a larger dynamic of social control and power, basically a nostic reading of society where everything's a prison. Most radical thought about sex has been embedded within a model of the instincts and the restraints. Concepts of sexual oppression have been lodged within the more biological understanding of sexuality. It's often easier to fall back on the notion of a natural libido subjected to inhumane repression than to reformulate concepts of sexual injustice inside a constructivist framework.
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