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Counterpleasures
Contributor(s): Mackendrick, Karmen (Author)
ISBN: 0791441482     ISBN-13: 9780791441480
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE:   $33.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 1999
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 306.481
LCCN: 98-26067
Series: Suny Series, Postmodern Culture
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.89" W x 8.95" (0.65 lbs) 212 pages
 
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Counterpleasures takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to leathersex. Each is placed in its cultural context to unfold a history of transgressive pleasure and to argue for the value and power of such pleasures as resistant to more totalizing forms of power.