Between Desire and PleasureA Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality

Explores the political, cultural and conceptual significance of sexual pleasure through Deleuze's philosophy

• A definitive contribution to cultural, conceptual and political debates about sexuality
• Looks at Deleuze’s writing on sexuality from both historical and conceptual perspectives to show how he interacts with both other thinkers and sexuality in practice
• Compares Deleuze's sexual theories to those of Michel Foucault – one of the most influential theorists of sexuality in Continental philosophy and critical theory – analysing the differences, similarities and interrelations

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.