i;;leologica!formation
ott sexuality
that
m:ost
Western
ronntrn:-s
llo!d are !he
discussion
regarding to
sexuality.
According to
Halperin (I993: 416) "sexuality is cultural production: it
represents
the
appn:1priatilon of th.e hlh'lla!l
body and ofits physiological capacities by
an ideological
disoourse."
m
other
words,
seJL'Uality is
the
way
of
thinking
produced by
culiure or
societ}l.
ThJs
statement is
supported by
Foucault
(1978)
h-"t Butler (!990:
17) t.lm
Lhe
renn of
sex
emetges trough
fue
pr;;>cel>S
that
required some rules on the gender norms.
process created consistent identities on the
term of sex. This process gives a lL'Ilited.
category or meaning on sex. The ru!es made by
the herorosexuals produce two
distinct
sex identities, which is
''male" and
"female" and
it
makes the other identities or gender
other words,
as Foucault (1979} said
in
Barker (2000: 237)
"we
are
gendered tt.rough the
power of
regulated a!ld regulatory
discoill'Ses. So
it
is
obviously
d
P..rthat sex is a culture product. The notion of sex is created by the particular society,
which
is dominated by
L'le heterosexusls who posses the
power.
In
the matter
seFoucault is CO!ll'..emed
on
how sex is
placed as a subject in
study or discourses. The study leads us
ro ::;fuer discourses and
brings knowledge to
l.!S. Tm
n's
why
Foucault
believed that
sexuality
is
closely
related
to
knowledge and
Sexuality mast liDt
be thought of
as
a
kind
of
nlll:Ural give."1 which
povver
tries
to hold
in
or
li!1
obscure
domain which knowledge tries gradually to
uncover.
l!is the P.ame !hat can
be
given
to a 1-dSlorical construct [dispos;tifl: not
a
furtive
reality
L!Jat
is
difficult to
grasp,
bul: a
great surfuce
network
in
which
the
stimulation
of
bodies,
the intensification
of
pleasures,
the
iiicitement
to
discourse, the
formation
of
special
!rnowledges,
the
strength.-"'ling of
controls
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