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. 1 John Ryan cartoon published in the Catholic Herald , 2 August 1968 Catholic marriage preparation The interviewees were of a generation whose sex lives were subjected to an unparalleled level of attention from Church institutions. Disciples of the theorist Michel Foucault would claim
his story of pathological discourses usurping Catholic regimes of regulation, Michel Foucault claimed to reconceptualise the way power worked in relation to the sexual subject. Whether through confessional or therapeutic techniques, discipline and governance have been exercised as much from within the individual as from without according to Foucault. 42 His model of historical change was therefore
. Foucault , ‘ Pastoral Power and Political Reason ’, in J. Carrette (ed.), Religion and Culture: Michel Foucault ( New York , 1999 ), pp. 135 – 154 . 85 Anne, interviewed 24/03/2012. 86 Foucault, ‘Pastoral Power and Political