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Royal Absolutism (Patriarchalism ): 1603-1649: Decline of royal absolutism in England

The State and Biopower (Michel Foucault). Modern State Mid 19thc.: Scientific discourse of race allowed state to identify internal enemies; discourse of sexual dimorphism allowed state to intervene in sexual relations for “the good of the state”. Royal Absolutism (Patriarchalism ):

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Royal Absolutism (Patriarchalism ): 1603-1649: Decline of royal absolutism in England

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  1. The State and Biopower (Michel Foucault) Modern State Mid 19thc.: Scientific discourse of race allowed state to identify internal enemies; discourse of sexual dimorphism allowed state to intervene in sexual relations for “the good of the state” Royal Absolutism (Patriarchalism): 1603-1649: Decline of royal absolutism in England Late 17thc.: Rise of liberalism - "undermined the social hierarchies based on lines of descent and called for new ways of naturalizing the inequities on which an emergent bourgeois order was based" Society defined as egalitarian; Power defined by the right of the state to protect the life of the social body (and thus the right to kill those deemed a threat to the social body). "Calculated management of life": bringing together two poles of biopower: discipline of individual body (internalized) and regulatory controls over life of species (institutional) - "produced normalizing society" Society defined by hierarchical relations of subordination; Power defined by right of monarch to kill.

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