Michel Foucault's "History of Sexuality" has significantly influenced the study of classics, offering a theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times.

Rethinking Sexuality Foucault and Classical Antiquity

Foucault's approach to the history of sexuality is radically different from conventional historical studies, focusing on power structures and knowledge structures rather than just sexual behaviors and ideologies.

The apparatus of sexuality: Reflections on Foucault's contributions to the study of sex in history

Michel Foucault's Histoire de la sexualité, influenced by John Boswell's concept of "gay," is not committed to historicizing sexual concepts but rather to transforming present-day relations through historiography.

Queer Strategies of Gay History: Boswell's "Weapons", Foucault's Expérience

Foucault's 1960s lectures on sexuality offer unexpected insights into biology, sex differentiation, sexual behavior, perversion, and infantile sexuality.

Foucault’s 1960s Lectures on Sexuality

Michel Foucault's'sexuality device' identifies the evolution of the social relationship with sexuality, from restrictive rules to permissive attitudes, favoring a hedonistic transformation based on consumption.

From Sigmund Freud to Michel Foucault: a study on sexuality

The fourth volume of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, Les aveux de la chair, bridges the chronological and conceptual gap to Volume 1, while also addressing previously unanswered questions about his work.

Review: Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité 4: Les aveux de la chair

Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality and related texts reveal his unique social critique and reformation of social theory, challenging common critiques and highlighting his significance.

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, and the Reformulation of Social Theory

Foucault's reading of the church fathers reveals a similar view of sexuality to that of contemporary philosophers, but the novelty of Christianity is in its relationship with the self, including baptism and confession.

Sexuality and the Christian Self: Michel Foucault’s Reading of the Church Fathers

Michel Foucault's engagement with Christian texts between 1974 and 1984 reveals a dynamic genealogy of subjectivity from western antiquity to modernity, transforming his initial suspicion into a critical genealogy of subjectivity.

Foucault’s Christianities

This introductory work by Alan Sheridan demonstrates the importance of Michel Foucault's work in understanding cultural representation, power, and knowledge in history, science, and medicine.

Michel Foucault. The will to truth

Foucault's approach to sexuality in antiquity has changed, focusing on social practices that link power, knowledge, and the body.

Foucault, the Fathers and Sex

Michel Foucault's analysis of power reveals that war is a central issue in political modernity, affecting the development of individual bodies and the relationship between power and biopower.

Life Struggles: War, Discipline and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault's theory of the nineteenth-century medical 'invention' of homosexuality needs revision, considering the connections between early modern Iberian and Colonial history and the international debate on gender and sexual transgressions.

Acts or Identities? Rethinking Foucault on Homosexuality

Foucault's work is a sustained effort to develop a new method, "interpretative analytics," capable of explaining both structuralism's objective science and hermeneutical counterclaim that human sciences must understand the deepest meaning of subjects and their traditions.

Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics.

Michel Foucault's work suggests alternative approaches to organizational analysis, offering insights into heterogeneity, homogeneity, total institutions, sexuality control, and the role of new technologies in control systems.

Modernism, Post Modernism and Organizational Analysis 2: The Contribution of Michel Foucault

Foucault's polemics against systematizing, universalizing theories and his methodological breaks with traditional social theory make him interesting for feminists, whose political and theoretical projects converge at important points with his provocations.

Feminism, Criticism, and Foucault

This book explores the ways in which Foucault's ideas on sexuality, ideology, and power can interact with contemporary feminism, offering insights into cultural analysis and resistance.

Feminism & Foucault : reflections on resistance

Foucault's thought could have been most relevant to the relationship between economic liberalism and politics, as he challenged the way we think about supposedly universal objects like madness, delinquency, sexuality, and government.

Michel Foucault and liberal intelligence

Michel Foucault's views on religion, particularly Christianity in Western society, shape history and negatively alter sexuality concepts, with the concept of "body" being the most interesting phenomenon.

MICHEL FOUCAULT: HIS VIEWS ON RELIGION IN THE CONTEXT OF SUBJECT, KNOWLEDGE/POWE

Michel Foucault's seminar on "Technologies of the Self" in 1982 is a partial record of his unfinished project on the self, focusing on the role of reading and writing in its construction.

Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault

What was the essence of Michel Foucault's study on sexuality

These studies suggest Michel Foucault's study on sexuality focuses on the interplay between power structures, knowledge, and social relationships, transforming historical and contemporary understandings of sexuality.