 Foucault’s history of sexuality was originally projected as a fairly straightforward extension of the genealogical approach of Discipline and Punish to the topic of sexuality. Foucault’s idea is that the various modern fields of knowledge about sexuality (various “sciences of sexuality,” including psychoanalysis) have an intimate association with the power structures of modern society and so are prime candidates for genealogical analysis. The first volume of this project, The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: The Will to Knowledge, published in 1976, was intended as the introduction to a series of studies on particular aspects of modern sexuality (children, women, “perverts,” population). It outlined the project of the overall history, explaining the basic viewpoint and the methods to be used.