Between Desire and Pleasure

Between Desire and Pleasure
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-13 : 9780748645930
ISBN-10 : 0748645934
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Book Synopsis Between Desire and Pleasure by : Frida Beckman

Download or read book Between Desire and Pleasure written by Frida Beckman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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