His genealogy of the carceral system centers on the way “the body as the major target of penal repression disappeared” at a certain point in history (DP, 8), only to be subjected to more subtle control by the “normal- izing” techniques of the human sciences in the nineteenth century. And the first volume of his genealogy of sexuality reveals “the en- croachment of a type of power on bodies and their pleasures” that the Victorian proliferation of “perversions” produced (HS, 48).