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We Other Victorians By Foucault

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Part I: We “Other Victorians” In the first part of the book, Foucault discusses the “repressive hypothesis”, which is the belief that sexuality and the open discussion about it was socially represent during the late 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, because of the rise of capitalism and the bourgeois society. What Foucault argues, is that it was never truly repressed, and asks himself why modern western scholars believe it was repressed. One idea was that in rejecting past ideas, future sexuality can be free, and the “unexplored eros”. Part II: The Repressive Hypothesis In the second part, Foucault notes that from the 17th century to the 1970s, there has been an explosion on the discussion about sex, however it was a codified discussion,

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