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Between desire and pleasure : a Deleuzian theory of sexuality / Frida Beckman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckman, Frida.
- Series:
- Plateaus.
- Plateaus : new directions in Deleuze studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
- Deleuze, Gilles.
- Sex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman explores the possibility of recovering a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work. She thereby makes a definitive contribution to cultural, conceptual and political debates about sexuality.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A Nonlinear History of Sexuality: Deleuze with Foucault
- Psychoanalysis Unhinged: Deleuze with Lacan, Klein, and Reich
- Folding, Individuation, and the Pleasurable Body
- Orgasmic Feminism
- Disabling Sex: Inventing a People who are Missing
- Becoming-Animal and the Posthuman Orgasm
- Capitalism and Sexuality
- Epilogue: Swedish Sin, or the Importance of Remaining Curious
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-8917-6
- 0-7486-4593-4
- OCLC:
- 854974254
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