Sudden, radical condensation of sexual categories
1. Does "sudden, radical condensation of sexual categories" mean "a sudden and radical reduction in the number of sexual categorizations, that is people started to leave last categorizations regarding manhood, womanhood, homosexuality, heterosexuality and to know all of them as one concept undividable from each other"?
2. Does "This meant there appeared to be a new intellectual concern, across several fields of knowledge, with distinguishing heterosexual from other sexual behaviors such as homosexuality" mean that the new intellectual concern condemned or supported the distinguishing of heterosexual from other sexual behaviors?
3. Does "through" here refer to "construction"?
Context:
In the first volume of his planned four-volume study The History of Sexuality (1976), Michel Foucault observed a “sudden, radical condensation of sexual categories” in the West, beginning in the late nineteenth century. This meant there appeared to be a new intellectual concern, across several fields of knowledge, with distinguishing heterosexual from other sexual behaviors such as homosexuality. As was typical of Foucault’s historically based works, The History of Sexuality traced the cultural and historical development of a social and epistemological category, here of sexuality, and the dynamics of power and ideology that hinge on the construction of that category through social institutions or intellectual disciplines.
Top answer
First, it is difficult to read the glaring highlighted text. Second, these sentences are taken out of a context where the philosophical attitudes and assumptions the author are being presented and elaborated. Missing this context, few people will be able to make out what in the world he or she is talking about.
- First, it is difficult to read the glaring highlighted text.
- Second, these sentences are taken out of a context where the philosophical attitudes and assumptions the author are being presented and elaborated.
- Missing this context, few people will be able to make out what in the world he or she is talking about.
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First, it is difficult to read the glaring highlighted text.
Second, these sentences are taken out of a context where the philosophical attitudes and assumptions the author are being presented and elaborated. Missing this context, few people will be able to make out what in the world he or she is talking about.
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