Between Desire and Pleasure

Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, this title explores the possibility of recovering a theory of sexuality from French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's work.

Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman recovers a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work.

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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