...the homosexual: As defined by [early nineteenth-century norms], [opium-eating] was a category of ... acts; their perpetrator was nothing more than the juridical subject of them. The nineteenth-century [addict] became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood. . . . [His addiction] was everywhere...

...OF HOMOSEXUALITIES In the now famous passage from the History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault states, As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology — The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species. (1980, 43) According...

...the sodomite into a homosexual; as Foucault writes in the first volume of The History of Sexuality: As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood. . . . Nothing that went into his total composition was unaffected by his sexuality. It was everywhere...

...cunnilingus, and anal intercourse. As a result "the homosexual" — "a personage, a past, a case history, a childhood, in addition to being a type of life, a life form, ... a morphology . . . [and, in sum,] a species"i7 — looms forward as the subject of judicial knowledge...

...study. The strongest argument for historical relativism has been made by Michel Foucault, who declared: As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes, sodomy was a categorv of forbidden acts; their perpetrator was nothing more than the juridical subject of them....

...transformed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in part by: a new specification of individuals. As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology." Sex between two women or between two men has been recorded for centuries, but understanding of what...

...Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage Books, 1978). 8. Ibid., p. 17. 9. Ibid., p. 43: "The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology." 10. Ibid., p. 32. 11. Ibid., p. 68. 12. Ibid., p. 103. 13. Likewise, although he did make the occasional...

...to success. Foucault is a necessary but problematic influence on my analysis. His treatment of how "the nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology," has become indispensable.4 Yet Foucault disturbingly obscures relations between the body and agency:...

...classicus of their program" (Stein, 1990b: 6). "The nineteenth-century homosexual," says Foucault (1979): became a personage, a past, a case history, and a...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology. . . . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species. (p. 15) British...

...explains the epistemplogical break signaled by the neologism, contrasting it with the term "sodomy": As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...history, and a childhood, in addition to being a type of lie, a life form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology....