Michel Foucault's "The Will to Knowledge: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1," is part one of a trilogy of works, which examines the evolution of discourse about sex and sexuality from the seventeenth century onwards. ... Foucault reasons that on first glance, the beginning of the seventeenth century marked an age of repression and restriction, very characteristic of bourgeois societies. ... In the eighteenth century, talking about sex became public interest. ... The hierarchical education system of the eighteenth century inadvertently incited a discourse about sex. The evolut...

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The seventeenth century was a time of change for those who grew disconnected in the Church of England and everything related to catholism. The Puritans believed that the Church of England had become a product of political struggles and was beyond reform. They believed that America would be the...

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Panopticism Michel Foucault's writing is "central to much current work in the humanities and the social science" (223). Foucault argued persuasively that we as people need to give up thinking about knowledge as individually produced. As an author, Foucault strongly encourages readers to stop th...

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Despite being settled and originally colonized by mainly English settlers, the New England colonies and the Chesapeake region were distinctly different by the beginning of the eighteenth century. A series of events leading up to the beginning of the seventeenth century can account for the vast differences between these two colonial regions. ...

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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were full of evolving social and economic ideas. These views of the social structure of urban society came about through the development of ideas taken from the past revolutions. As the Industrial Revolution progressed through out the world, so did the gap be...

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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were full of evolving social and economic ideas. These views of the social structure of urban society came about through the development of ideas taken from the past revolutions. As the Industrial Revolution progressed through out the world, so did the gap be...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate