Well, he probably needed the first three chapters as preliminaries to situate himself in the context of the debates around sexuality and repression that were going on at the time. After all, this was just a few years after 1968 and there was a very…
Robert, I would read this differently. Just before the sentence in question (you omitted this), he explains that the types of power relations we tend to accept as given and universal are just 'snapshots' of a very dynamic process of changing distrib…
I fully agree with Ali on this. The book certainly contains a lot of important insights on what we call 'sexuality', but at the same time it is much more (and is meant to be) than a book on that topic. I'm not sure, but I suspect that in the English…