Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality
Frida Beckman
Abstract
Mapping both historical and contemporary configurations of the sexual body along with its functions and sensations, this book identifies disabling conceptions and constructions of pleasure while also searching for the possibility of claiming sexual pleasure as a constructive and politically enabling notion today. In the face of the way in which Deleuze’s theory of desire builds on a rejection of the usefulness of pleasure, this book works to construct a Deleuzian theory of sexuality that is inclusive of pleasure. Intervening into contemporary fields of research including posthumanist-, disabil ... More
Keywords: Deleuze, Sexuality, Desire, Pleasure, Body, Foucault, Feminism, Posthumanism, Disability, Psychoanalysis
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748645923 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2013 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748645923.001.0001 |
