num_pages: 176
description: Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.
language: English
title: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
titlecomplete: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
genres: Academic, Philosophy, Sexuality, Queer, Psychology, Theory, Nonfiction, Sociology, History, France
ratings_count: 22320
series: The History of Sexuality
publisher: Vintage