Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality

Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality
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By:"Frida Beckman"
"Philosophy"
Published on 2013-05-31 by Edinburgh University Press

Foucault's The \u003cb\u003eHistory of Sexuality\u003c/b\u003e, Lesley Dean-Jones argues, is a history of \u003cbr\u003e\nmale sexuality (Dean-Jones 1992: 77). Not least in the way in which he \u003cbr\u003e\nunderstands the historical use of pleasure and the orgasm as defined through a \u003cbr\u003e\nmodel of the ...

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Explores the political, cultural and conceptual significance of sexual pleasure through Deleuze's philosophy. How is sexual pleasure inscribed into conceptions of the body, gender, health and the human? What is its role in the construction of these notions? And, most importantly, how can it contribute to an expansion of what they mean?Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman addresses these questions to recover a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work.

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