Michel Foucault's "History of Sexuality" has been one of the most
influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous
impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on
gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to
this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines volume one of "History of
Sexuality" in an unexplored light. She asks why there has been such
a muted engagement with this work among students of colonialism for
whom issues of sexuality and power are so essential. Why is the
colonial context absent from Foucault's history of a European
sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? In "Race
and the Education of Desire, "Stoler challenges Foucault's tunnel
vision of the West and his marginalization of empire. She also
argues that this first volume of "History of Sexuality" contains a
suggestive if not studied treatment of race.
Drawing on Foucault's little-known 1976 College de France lectures,
Stoler addresses his treatment of the relationship between
biopower, bourgeois sexuality, and what he identified as "racisms
of the state." In this critical and historically grounded analysis
based on cultural theory and her own extensive research in Dutch
and French colonial archives, Stoler suggests how Foucault's
insights have in the past constrained--and in the future may help
shape--the ways we trace the genealogies of race.
"Race and the Education of Desire" will revise current notions of
the connections between European and colonial historiography and
between the European bourgeois order and the colonial treatment of
sexuality. Arguing that a history of European nineteenth-century
sexuality must also be a history of race, it will change the way we
think about Foucault.
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