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the institutional use of bodies purposes of control
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production of discourse as a result of the interrogation of the self (by the self or others, real and imagined), typically with regard to body practices
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the idea that homosexuality and what it means to be gay vary across history and social context
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institutional means used to control, regulate, and subjugate individuals, groups, and society as a whole
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categorizations, talk, and silences pertaining to social practices
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these are produced as a result of institutional techniques and procedures used to discipline, subjugate, use, and improve individual (and population) bodies
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the view of sexuality that being gay, and the social characteristics associated with being gay, are a natural (essential) part of the gay individual’s biology
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interconnected social, political, and historical context for the emergence of particular ideas or social categories
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the presumption that heterosexuality is normal
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a model used highlight how disciplinary power works by keeping the individual a constant object of unceasing surveillance/control
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idea emphasizing that truth is produced by social relationships and social contexts, and thus can never be independent of power
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an ongoing circulatory process with no fixed location or fixed points of origin, possession, and resistance
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this theory rejects the sexual binary and shifts attention from the unequal status of gays and lesbians in a heterosexist society to instead focus on intellectual and political agendas on the fluidity of all sexuality
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institutional system whereby the state, other institutions, and knowledge producers (scientists, professors) affirm certain ideas and practices as true and marginalize or silence alternative practices and interpretations
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society’s orderly, routinized, and power-infused ways (e.g., confession) of producing subjects talking about socially repressed secrets and practices.
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the code or meanings inscribed in language and other symbols in a given societal context
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continuous monitoring and disciplining of bodies by social institutions across private and public domains
