Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction

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1976

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Strange & Unusual

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