...passage is in fact so well forgotten that nothing but direct quotation from it will do. Foucault writes, As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes, sodomy was a category of forbidden acts; their author was nothing more than the juridical subject of them. The nineteenth-century homosexual became...

...result of a specific and radical shift in historical conceptions of human sexuality. Foucault says that, [a]s defined by the ancient civil or canonical...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology. In saying that 'the sodomite had been a temporary aberration!,] the homosexual was now a species',6...

...subrace was born, different — despite certain kinship ties — from the libertines of the past. . . . The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology." Thus, "the homosexual was now a species."13 Distinctly modern understandings of sexuality — with...

...considered "a temporary aberration," evolved in the nineteenth century into the homosexual, "a species.""As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes, sodomy...nothing more than the juridical subject of them," he writes. "The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood,...

...preferred sexual acts became expressions of one's identity, one's personality, one's innermost essence: "the nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage,...childhood, in addition to being a type of life, a lifeform, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatThus the discourse of norms and deviations becomes...

...sexual behaviours, was transformed into the identity category of 'homosexuality': The nineteenth century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history...in addition to being a type of life, a life form, a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology. Nothing that went into...

...'the ethnographic imagination'. 47 In this argument, Foucault's nineteenth-century homosexual, who was 'a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology' was enabled by the invention of 'race' and by the history of colonialism, which in turn compelled that...

...acts; their perpetrator was nothing more than the juridical subject of them. The nineteenth century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology. - - . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species....7 According...

...newsmagazines and so on, which all claim some truth value. Chapter 1: Alibis of Essence and Enemies Within The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage,...morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly mysterious physiology. Nothing that went into his total composition was unaffected by his sexuality....

...savoir: The sodomy of the old civil and canonical codes was a category of forbidden acts; their author was nothing more than the juridical subject of them....personage: a past, a case history and a childhood, a character-type, a form of life; also a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious...