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Michel Foucault's "The History of Sexuality Vol.1" (Part 1/2)

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Foucault's the Rise and Fall of Homosexuality

Foucault is really speaking to that here because anything that is derivative two or viewed as such from the norm and perhaps in this case you know we think of the cisgender heterosexual subject happens to also be white. Anything that deviates from that will is then existing in a world based solely on what was regarded as that that perversion or that distinct characteristic of themselves so what we have then she Foucault tells us was that homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed into interior androgyny.

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