Bio-politics and the birth of sexual reform?
During the last period of his life, Foucault became increasingly interested in a field known as bio-politics . There are several ways to define this tricky term, but one understanding of it that have been rather important to me is Foucaults thought on why the biopolitics were created. According to Foucault the late 17th and early 18th century marked a new era, when states to an increased degree became aware of the population as a resource that could be re-developed and mastered, thus improving a countrys financial and cultural assets. This is a crucial point, since it would explain how population management became a part of state policy. The idea here is that states need to manage their population in order to make it grow which throughout history have manifested differently were perhaps one of the modern eras main points is a form of governmentality in which citizens should conduct their behavior according to the states wishes. This is for instance rather clear in the ...