Abnormal (Foucault)
abnormals
abnormality
abortion
“About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self” (Foucault)
acts (versus identities)
Aesthetics (Hegel)
aesthetic practice
affect
“Against Proper Objects” (Butler)
Age of Reason; see also Enlightenment
agency
alcoholism
Allen, Amy
alterity: archival; and divergentism; erotic; ethical; experience of; historical; in Levinas; madness as; as objectification; and psychoanalysis; sexual; of subject; see also other; othering; otherness
AIDS
Althusser, Louis
anal pleasure
ancient Greece; see also Greco-Roman world
animality
Annales School
anonymity
Antigone’s Claim (Butler)
antihumanism; see also humanism
Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze and Guattari)
antipsychiatry movement; see also Cooper, David; Laing, Ronald
antisocial thesis (in queer theory)
aphasia
aporia
archeology
archive fever
archiveology
archives, in Normandy (IMEC); and Foucault’s philosophical practice; and History of Madness
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
ars erotica
art of living
art, intransitivity of
Artaud, Antonin
Artemidorus
assujettissement; see also subjectivation
asylums
“Attempt at a Self-Criticism” (Nietzsche)
Augustine
author function
avuncular relations
Bachelard, Gaston
bad conscience (in Nietzsche)
Badiou, Alain
Balibar, Etienne
Barkley Brown, Elsa
Barraqué, Jean
Barthes, Roland
Bartsch, Shadi and Thomas Bartscherer
Bataille, Georges
Baudelaire, Charles
Beaulieu, Alan and Réal Fillion
Beauvoir, Simone de
becoming-other; see also coextension; desubjectivation
Beggar’s Banquet (album)
Bell, Vikki
Bergoffen, Debra
Berlant, Lauren
Bersani, Leo
Berthold-Bond, Daniel
Between Men (Sedgwick)
Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche
Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Dreyfus and Rabinow)
Bijoux indiscrets (Diderot)
Binswanger, Otto
Binswanger, Ludwig
bio-logos
biopolitics
biopower
bios (life); alethes bios
birth (of Western subject); see also assujettissement; subject; subjectivation
Birth of the Clinic (Foucault)
Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche)
Black Power movement (U.S.)
Blanchot, Maurice
Blasius, Mark
bodies and pleasures
Bodies That Matter (Butler)
body: archival; erotic; individual; as part of psyche; sexual; species; see also mind-body split
book: as explosive; as object-event; as tool
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bosch, Hieronymus
Boulez, Pierre
Bourdieu, Pierre
bourgeois morality; see also bad conscience; conscience
bourgeois order
bourgeois values; see also family values
Boyne, Roy
Brandt, Sebastian
Braudel, Fernand
Bray, Alan
Brook, Peter
Brown, Wendy
Butler, Judith: on biopower; on confession in Foucault; dialectic in; on ethics in Foucault; and feminist-queer split; and performativity; and psychoanalysis; and queer theory; reception in France
——Works: “Against Proper Objects”; Antigone’s Claim; Bodies That Matter; Gender Trouble; Giving an Account of Oneself; “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”; Precarious Life; Psychic Life of Power; “Sexual Inversions”; Undoing Gender
caged freedom (psychoanalysis as); see also freedom; liberation
Canguilhem, Georges
Caputo, John
care of the other
care of the self
Care of the Self, see History of Sexuality Volume Three (Foucault)
Cartesian: cogito; coup; doubt; error; method; mind-body split; moment; orgasm; rationalism; rejection of madness; subjectivity; see also Descartes, René
Cartesianism
“Catacombs” (Rubin)
Catherine the Great
Catherine wheel
cause and effect logic, critique of
Cavaillès, Jean
Chanter, Tina
Charcot, Jean Martin
Charenton
Christianity
Cleaver, Eldridge
close reading
closet, the
coextension (subjectivity as)
cogito
“Cogito and History of Madness” (Derrida)
Coherence of Gothic Conventions, (Sedgwick)
Collège de France
communautarisme, (and identity politics)
confession
Compagnie des contemporains (Droit)
“Confessions de Michel Foucault,” (Foucault)
Confessions of the Flesh (Foucault)
confinement
conjuration; see also exorcism
conscience (moral); see also bad conscience; bourgeois conscience; moral values
consciousness
contestation
conversion
Cooper, David
Corday, Charlotte
Corber, Robert and Stephen Valocchi
Correspondance littéraire (journal)
Coup: Cartesian; Freudian; of rationalism
coup de foudre
“Courage de la vérité” (Foucault)
Creech, James
Critique of Cynical Reason (Sloterdijk)
curiosity, as care
Cusset, François
Cvetkovich, Ann
Cynic Enlightenment (Shea)
Cynics
D’Emilio, John
Dartmouth lectures (Foucault)
Davidson, Arnold
Davis, Angela
Daybreak (Nietzsche)
Dean, Tim
“Dear Ian” (Wiegman)
death: biopower and; eros and; madness as; sex as
death instinct (death drive)
Débat de folie et d’amour (Labé)
deconstruction; see also Derrida, Jacques
dedialectizing
Defert, Daniel
degenerescence
degenitalization; see also S/M practices
Deleuze, Gilles: on diagram; on doubling of history; fold in; on Foucault; on reading; on self-undoing; machine in; singularity in
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari
delirium
delirious discourse
De Man, Paul
Derrida, Jacques; in Butler; dispute with Foucault; Freud lecture
Descartes, René: birth of Western subject in; convergence with Freud; Derrida’s dispute with Foucault over; dreams in; exclusion of madness from cogito in; exorcism in; evil genius in; as father of modern philosophy; Meditations; res cogitans in
desire
desubjectivation
deviance
dialectic
dialogue
Dickinson, Emily
Diderot, Denis; Sedgwick’s queer reading of
——Works: Bijoux indiscrets; Nun; Rameau’s Nephew; history of manuscript; translations of
Dieckmann, Herbert
différance; see also deconstruction; Derrida, Jacques
“Different Spaces” (Foucault)
Diogenes
disavowal (in psychoanalysis)
disciplinary power, see power
Discipline and Punish (Foucault)
“Discourse on Language” (Foucault)
discursive power, see power
dispositif
doctor-patient couple
dodecaphonic music; see also Barraqué, Jean; Boulez, Pierre
Dora
double, the; ethico-moral; psychiatric
doubling; historical
Dream and Existence, Introduction to (Foucault)
dreams
Dreyfus, Hubert
Droit, Roger-Pol
DSM III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual)
Dumézil, Georges
Dürer, Albrecht
During, Simon
Echapper à la psychanalyse (Eribon)
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
Ecrits (Lacan)
Edelman, Lee
Elden, Stuart
Emergence of Sexuality (Davidson)
Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (Hegel)
En devenant Foucault (Moreno Prestaña)
Endymion
Enlightenment; see also Age of Reason
“enlightenment,” other
Eng, David
Epicureans
epimeleia heautou; see also care of the self; subject
Epistemology of the Closet (Sedgwick)
Erasmus
erastes
erection; see also Augustine
Eribon, Didier
eromenos
eros: as alterity; as error; ethics of; Freudian; Greek; as life; as love; as madness; premodern; in Rajchman; and Thanatos; as transformation; silencing of; relation to modern sexuality; see also ars erotica; erotic
erotic: experience; other; practice; see also ars erotica; eros
errancy
error
ethics: feminist; in Foucault’s oeuvre; of freedom; and queer theory; postmoral; of sexuality; and subjectivity; versus morality
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Foucault)
“Ethics of the Concern for Self as a Practice of Freedom, The” (Foucault)
ethics of eros; see also eros
ethopoiein
eugenics
event: book as; Foucault as; genealogical; reason as; as rupture of evidence (eventialization); subjectivation as
eventialization (événementialisation)
“Evidence of Experience” (Scott)
exclusion: of homosexuality; institutional; moral; political; rationalist; sexual
exile
existentialism
exorcism
experience: ethical; evidence of; heterotopian; of madness; as nonphilosophical; personal; phenomenological; prepredicative; sexual; of thought; see also limit-experience
exteriority; confinement of the outside; thought of the outside
“Extreme Prejudice” (Gordon)
Fabre, Jean
family: bourgeois;; oedipal
family values; see also bourgeois values
Farge, Arlette
Fassin, Eric
father: Descartes as; Foucault as; Freud as; Hegel as; oedipal; see also patriarchy
feeling, as thinking
feelings
Feher, Michel
Felman, Shoshana
feminism; governance; sex-positive; lesbian; see also ethics: feminist; feminists; feminist-queer split
Feminism and the Final Foucault (Taylor and Vintges)
Feminism Meets Queer Theory (Schor and Weed)
feminists; perspectives on ethics in Foucault
feminist-queer split
“Fictions of Foucault’s Scholarship” (Scull)
filiation, queer; see also avunculate
Finkielkraut, Alain
fisting
Fleury, Robert
Flynn, Thomas
fold; see also Deleuze
Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (Foucault)
fool; see also ship of fools
“Fool’s Truth, The” (Schmidt)
Foucault, American reception of; and biography, resistance to; and dodecaphonic music; death of; dispute with Derrida; History of Madness, importance of; and Hyppolite; and madness; and Nietzsche, discovery of; as poet; as stylist; suicide attempts; unpublished archival materials
——Works: Abnormal; “About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self”; Birth of the Clinic; “Confessions de Michel Foucault”; Confessions of the Flesh; “Courage de la vérité”; “Different Spaces”; Discipline and Punish; “Discourse on Language”; Dream and Existence, introduction to; Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth; “Ethics of the Concern for Self as a Practice of Freedom”; Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique; “Gérer les illégalismes”; Hermeneutics of the Subject; History of Sexuality Volume One (acts and identities in; biopower in; and critique of psychoanalysis; feminist critiques of; and queer theory; rape in; relation to History of Madness; History of Sexuality Volume Two; History of Sexuality Volume Three; “Je suis un artificier”; “Lives of Infamous Men”; “Madness, the Absence of an Oeuvre”; Madness and Civilization; “Masked Philosopher”; Mental Illness and Personality; Mental Illness and Psychology; Michel Foucault, entretiens; “Michel Foucault, passe-frontières de la philosophie”; “Nietzsche, Freud, Marx”; “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”; “On the Genealogy of Ethics”; Order of Things; “Preface to Transgression”; Psychiatric Power; “Right of Death and Power Over Life”; “Sexuality and Solitude”; “This Body, This Paper, This Fire”; “Thought of the Outside”; “What Is an Author?”; “What Is Enlightenment?”
Foucault (Deleuze)
Foucault and the Art of Ethics (O’Leary)
Foucault and Literature (During)
Foucault and Queer Theory (Jagose)
Foucault Beyond Foucault (Nealon)
“Foucault, Experience, Literature” (O’Leary)
Foucault on Freedom (Oksala)
Franco-American relations
Frank, Adam
freedom; see also ethics
French Revolution
French Theory (Cusset)
Freud; Derrida’s defense of; Eros and Thanatos in; Foucault’s critique of; psyche in; unconscious in; see also Oedipus, psychoanalysis, and talking cure
Freudo-Foucauldianism
Freudo-Marxism
Garber, Linda
games of truth
gay culture
Gay Shame (conference)
Gay Science (Nietzsche)
Gearhart, Suzanne
gender; see also sex-gender system
Gender Trouble (Butler)
genealogy
Genealogy of Queer Theory (Turner)
generosity
Genesis and Structure of the Phenomenology of Spirit (Hyppolite)
Genet, Jean
Genette, Gérard
“Genre aux Etats-Unis” (Fassin)
“Gérer les illégalismes” (Foucault)
Gide, André
GID (Gender Identity Disorder)
GIP (Groupe d’information sur les prisons)
Girodet, Anne-Louis
Giving an Account of Oneself (Butler)
gnothi seauton; see also self-knowing
God, death of
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldberg, Jonathan
Goldman, Emma
Goldstein, Jan
Gordon, Colin
Goux, Jean-Joseph
governmentality
“Great Confinement”; see also confinement
Greco-Roman world; see also ancient Greece
grief
Griffiths, Paul
Grimm, Friedrich Melchior
Grimshaw, Jean
guilt
Gutting, Gary
Guys, Constantin
Habermas, Jürgen
habitus
Hacking, Ian
Hadot, Pierre
Halberstam, Judith
Halley, Ian
Halley, Janet
Hallward, Peter
Halperin, David
Hayman, Ronald
Hegel, G. W. F.
Hegelianism
Hegel’s Theory of Madness
Heidegger, Martin
Henri IV (lycée)
heresy
heretic
hermeneutic practice
Hermeneutics of the Subject (Foucault)
heteronormativity
heterotopia
Hirschmann, Nancy
historical present
History of Madness (Foucault), and queer theory; prefaces and 1972; reception of; translation history of
History of Sexuality Volume One (Foucault): acts and identities in; biopower in; and critique of psychoanalysis; feminist critiques of; and queer theory; rape in; relation to History of Madness
History of Sexuality Volume Two (Foucault)
History of Sexuality Volume Three (Foucault)
Hocquenghem, Guy
Hölderlin, Friedrich
Homosexual Desire (Hocquenghem)
homosexuality
homosexual lyricism
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (Dean and Lane)
Horace
hospitals
Howard, Richard
Howe, Susan
humanism; see also antihumanism
human sciences
Hurley, Robert
Hutcheon, Linda
Hyppolite, Jean
hysteria
identity; as equality; see also acts (versus identities); identity politics
Identity Poetics (Garber)
identity politics
IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine)
“Imitation and Gender Insubordination”
individuation
Infinite Conversation (Blanchot)
insanity
Insult and the Making of the Gay Self (Eribon)
interiority; psychic
internalization
intensities
inversion
inverts
Irigaray, Luce
irony
ironic reversal (dialectical)
“Is the Rectum a Grave?” (Bersani)
Ja-sagen; see also yes-saying Jackson, George
Jackson, Glenda
Jagose, Annamarie
Jamison, Kay Redfield
“Je suis un artificier” (Foucault)
Jones, Tamara
Jordan, Mark
Jouy, Charles
Justinian
Kant, Immanuel
Katz, Jonathan
Kaufman, Walter
Kessler, Count Harry
Khalfa, Jean
Kirby, Vicki
Klein, Melanie
Kristeva, Julia
Labé, Louise
Lacan, Jacques
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe
Laing, Ronald D.
Lane, Christopher
Laplanche, Jean and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
laughter
Lauretis, Teresa de
Lawrence v. Texas
lepers
Leuret, François
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Levinas, Emmanuel
liberation; see also caged freedom; freedom
libido, see desire
life, see bios; biopower; eros
limit, philosophy of the
limit-experience
listening, ethical; see also parrhesia
literature
“Lives of Infamous Men” (Foucault)
lord-bondsman dialectic
Lorde, Audre
love; see also eros
Lyotard, Jean-François
lyricism; see also homosexual lyricism
Macey, David
Macherey, Pierre
MacKinnon, Catherine
madness: as absence of an oeuvre; as death; Foucault’s; in Hegel; in Hyppolite; as imaginary; Nietzsche’s; of philosophy; as void
“Madness, the Absence of an Oeuvre” (Foucault)
Madness and Civilization (Foucault)
Mandrou, Robert
Marat/Sade (Weiss)
Marcuse, Herbert
Martel, Frédéric
Martin, Biddy
Martin, Jacques
Marxism
“Masked Philosopher,” (Foucault)
Mauldon, Margaret
Mbembe, Achille
McNay, Lois
Meditations (Descartes)
Megill, Allen
mental illness
Mental Illness and Personalité (Foucault)
Mental Illness and Psychology (Foucault)
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Midelfort, Erik
Michel Foucault, entretiens (Droit)
“Michel Foucault, passe-frontières de la philosophie” (Foucault)
militantism, in cynicism; revolutionary
Miller, James
mimicry; see also mirroring; ventriloquism
mind-body split
mirroring
Monde, Le (French newspaper)
Monval, Georges
Moon, Michael
moralism: bourgeois; feminist; rationalist; queer
morality, see bourgeois morality, ethics
moral values
“More Things Change,” (Weed)
Moreno Pestaña, José Luis
Muñoz, José
murmur (historical)
My Emily Dickinson (Howe)
Naigeon, Jacques-André
Nancy, Jean-Luc
narcolepsy
Narrenschiff (Brant)
Nazism
Nealon, Jeffrey
negation (dialectical)
negativity
Nephew
Nerval, Gérard de
Nietzsche, Elisabeth
Nietzsche, Friedrich: bad conscience in; in Butler; critique of morality in; death of; Foucault’s use of; gay science in; historicization of the subject in; importance in History of Madness; importance of feeling in; madness in; as poet; psyche in; social contract in; soul in; Wahnbriefe; warrior ethics in; yes-saying in
——Works: “Attempt at a Self-Criticism”; Birth of Tragedy; Daybreak; Gay Science; On the Genealogy of Morals
“Nietzsche, Freud, Marx” (Foucault)
“Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (Foucault)
Nigro, Robert
nonpositive affirmation
normalization
normativity
Norton, Rictor
Nun (Diderot)
O’Grady, Helen
O’Leary, Timothy
objectification
objectivity
Oedipus
Oedipus Philosopher (Goux)
Oksala, Johanna
“On Not Knowing Who We Are” (Caputo)
“On the Genealogy of Ethics” (Foucault)
On the Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche)
Order of Things (Foucault)
orgasm
Ortner, Sherry
other: beloved; erotic; ethical; excluded; historical; madman as; of the same; singular
othering
otherness; see also alterity; other; othering
Overbeck, Franz
Oxford Hellenists
pantomime
paradox: ethico-historical; of freedom; of Hegelianism; of interiority of psyche; of the limit; logic of; of madness as void; in the Nephew; of sexuality in queer theory; of unreason
paranoia
parody
parrhesia
Pascal, Blaise
passion
pathos
patriarchy; see also father
penetration; see also Artemidorus
Perez, Hiram
performativity; see also resignification
perverse implantation
perversion:; dialectical
Petites-Maisons
phenomenology
Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel)
philosophy (versus spirituality)
Pinel, Philippe
Plato
Plaza, Monique
pleasure; see also bodies and pleasures
poem-lives
poetic attitude
poiesis
Point, Le (French magazine)
Politics of Life Itself (Rose)
Porter, Roy
positivism; see also science
positivity
postmoral ethics
poststructuralism, close reading and; queer theory and; Foucault and; in the U.S.; in Butler
Poulet, Georges
power: deductive (prélèvement);; disciplinary; discursive; erotic; games of; juridical; microphysics of; nondiscursive; patriarchal; productive; psychiatric; repressive; sovereign; will to
power-knowledge (pouvoir-savoir)
power feminism
Praise of Folly (Erasmus)
Precarious Life (Butler)
précieuses
prefaces (to History of Madness): 1961
“Preface to Transgression” (Foucault)
premodern period; see also Renaissance
prison-industrial complex
“Prodigal Son”
promiscuity
Proust, Marcel
psyche; body as part of
psyche-logos
Psychiatric Power (Foucault)
psychiatry
Psychic Life of Power (Butler)
psychoanalysis; as patriarchal; as part of psychology;
psychology
psychosis
Puar, Jasbir
“queer”: as deviation; first use of term; as first-person utterance; as methodology
Queer Critics (Cusset)
queer feminism
queer theory; as postsexual
“Queer Theory by Men” (Halley)
“Queer Theory, Lesbian and Gay Studies” (Lauretis)
Quétel, Claude
Rabinow, Paul
Racevskis, Karlis
Race and the Education of Desire (Stoler)
racism
Rajchman, John
Rameau’s Nephew (Diderot); history of manuscript; translations of
Rameau, Jean-François
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Rancière, Jacques
rape
rationalist morality
Ravenna bapistry
Ray, Janisse
reason, spatialization of; relation to unreason
Reich, Wilhelm
Renaissance; see also premodern period repetition
repression (répression); versus refoulement; see also power
repressive hypothesis
republicanism (French)
res cogitans
resignification; see also performativity
resistance
ressentiment; as “wounded attachments” (Brown)
retraversal
Retreat at York; see also Tuke, William
reversal (dialectical)
Richlin, Amy
Ricoeur, Paul
“Right of Death and Power Over Life” (Foucault)
Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Marquis de la
Roe v. Wade
Rolling Stones
romanticism
Rose, Jacqueline
Rose, Nikolas
Roussel, Raymond
Rubin, Gayle
rupture; of evidence; see also eventialization
S/M practices; see also degenitalization
Sade, Marquis de
Saint Foucault (Halperin)
Saint John the Baptist
Salpêtrière
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Satires
Sawicki, Jana
scavenger theory
Schiller, Friedrich
Schmidt, James
science; see also positivism
Scott, Charles
Scott, Joan Wallach
Scull, Andrew
Sea on Fire (Griffiths)
secret, structure of
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
Sedgwick, Peter
self, see subject; subjectivation; subjectivity
“Séquence” (Barraqué)
sex-gender system; see also gender
sexology
sexuality, see alterity; eros; body; subject
“Sexual Inversions” (Butler)
“Sexual Traffic” (Rubin)
“Sexuality and Solitude” (Foucault)
Sexuality One, see History of Sexuality Volume One (Foucault)
shame
Shame and Its Sisters (Sedgwick and Frank)
Shea, Louisa
ship of fools
Ship of Fools (Bosch)
silence
singularity
Sleep of Endymion (Girodet)
Sloterdijk, Peter
social contract
Social Text
Socrates
sodomites; as inverts; burning of
Sollers, Philippe
Soper, Kate
soul
sovereignty, see power and subject
Spargo, Tamsin
specification, logic of
Speculum of the Other Woman (Irigaray)
spirit (in Hegel)
spirituality (versus philosophy)
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
Split Decisions (Halley)
splitting, logic of
stoicism
Stoler, Ann
Stone, Lawrence
strangeness
structuralism; linguistic
style of life, see art of living
stylist, Foucault as
subject: coextensive; death of; decentered; nonself-identical; relational; relation to object; relation to truth; self-caring; self-knowing; self-identical; self-testing; self-undoing; sexual; sovereign; split
Subject of Liberty, (Hirschmann)
subject-object relation
subjectivation; see also assujettissement
subjectivity; and truth; cost of; fabular
“Subjectivity and Truth” (Foucault)
sublation (dialectical)
subversion
suicide
surveillance; as care
Swain, Gladys
Sweden
Symonds, John Addington
systematic doubt; see also Cartesian, Descartes
Szasz, Thomas
Tableau de Paris (Mercier)
talking cure
Tancock, Leonard
Taylor, Dianna and Karen Vintges
tekhne tou biou
Tel Quel (French journal)
temporality
Tendencies (Sedgwick)
tenderness
Thanatos; see also death
“That’s No Way to Get Along” (Rolling Stones)
thaumaturgy (in Freud)
theatrum mundi
Théry, Irène
“Thinking Sex” (Rubin)
“This Body, This Paper, This Fire”
thought of the outside; see also exteriority
“Thought of the Outside” (Foucault)
“To Do Justice to Freud” (Derrida)
Tomkins, Silvan
Touching Feeling (Sedgwick)
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (MacKinnon)
“Traffic in Women” (Rubin)
Tragédies et oeuvres diverses
tragedy
transformation, ethical
transgender
transgression
translation, problems of
“Trouble-genre” (Fassin)
Truth and Eros (Rajchman)
Tuke, William
Turner, William
unconscious (Freudian); Foucault on; see also psyche
Undoing Gender (Butler)
universalism, logic of
unreason: cynicism as; as limit of thinking; psychoanalysis and; relation to love; relation to madness; relation to reason; as sexual alterity; paradox of; silence of; time of
Use of Pleasure (Foucault), see History of Sexuality Volume Two
utopias
Van Gogh, Vincent
Vandeul, Madame de (Diderot’s daughter)
ventriloquism
Verdeaux, Jacqueline
Veyne, Paul
Vicinus, Martha
Victoria, Queen
violence; sexual, see rape
vitalism
void
Volonté de savoir (Foucault), see History of Sexuality Volume One
Volland, Sophie (Diderot’s mistress)
vulnerability
Wahnbriefe (Nietzsche)
Weed, Elizabeth
Weeks, Jeffrey
Weiss, Peter
West, Robin
Westphal, Karl
“What Is an Author?” (Foucault)
“What Is Enlightenment?” (Foucault)
Wiegman, Robyn
Wilde, Oscar
Wilkins, Robert
will to knowledge
will to power
Willett, Cynthia
Winnubst, Shannon
women’s studies
yes-saying