Deleuze and Sex

Frida Beckman is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). She has also published extensively on Deleuze, where her books include Gilles Deleuze: A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2017), Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Deleuze and Sex (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction-What is Sex: An Introduction to the Sexual Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Frida Beckman; 1. Alien Sex: Octavia Butler and Deleuze and Guattari's Polysexuality, Ronald Bogue; 2. Heterotica: The 1000 Tiny Sexes of Anaïs Nin, Anna Powell; 3. Haemosexuality, Gretchen Riordan; 4. Disability, Deleuze, and Sex, Daniel Goodley and Rebecca Lawthom; 5. Tongue and Trigger: Deleuze's Erotics of the Uncanny (Images and Statement), Cara Judea Alhadeff; 6. (Hetero)sexing the child: Hans, Alice and the repressive hypothesisCatherine Driscoll, Carina Garland and Anna Hickey-Moody; 7. The 'Non-Human Sex' in Sexuality: 'What are Your Special Desiring-Machines, Gregg Lambert; 8. Deleuze and Selfless Sex: Undoing Kant's Copernican Revolution, Jeffrey A. Bell; 9. A Preface to Pornotheology: Spinoza, Deleuze, and the Sexing of Angels, Charlie Blake; 10. Encounters of Ecstasy, Patricia MacCormack; 11. Beyond Sexuality: of Love, Failure and Revolutions, Aislinn O'Donnell; Notes on the Contributors; Index.

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