Pleasure Erased
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Pleasure Erased

The Clitoris Unthought

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eBook - ePub

Pleasure Erased

The Clitoris Unthought

About this book

The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured. Conferences, books, manifestos, works of art are all devoted to it. The autonomy of clitoral jouissance is recognized. The boundaries of feminism have also moved: queer, intersex and trans approaches claim that the clitoris is perhaps no longer the exclusive preserve of the woman. And yet, there remains a wounded space. Because genital mutilation is still common practice. Because millions of women are still denied pleasure. The clitoris continues to mark the enigmatic space of the feminine. Constrained by the extreme difficulty and the extreme urgency of returning to this scorched earth, it is time to give voice to an organ of pleasure which has still not become an organ of thought.

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Yes, you can access Pleasure Erased by Catherine Malabou, Carolyn Shread in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Philosophy History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Polity
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781509549931, 9781509549924
eBook ISBN
9781509549948
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Extract
  6. Translator’s Preface
  7. Foreword
  8. 1 Erasures
  9. 2 Nymphs 1: Virtual Goddesses
  10. 3 Nymphs 2: Images without Genitals – Agamben, Boccaccio, Warburg
  11. 4 Nymphs 3: Nadja, or a Being without life – A Brief Commentary on “The Woman Love Object”
  12. 5 Political Anatomy
  13. 6 “Sexual Existence” according to Simone de Beauvoir
  14. 7 Dolto, Lacan and the “Relationship”
  15. 8 “The Feminine Sexual Organ is the Clitoris”: Carla Lonzi and the Feminism of Difference
  16. 9 Luce Irigaray: “Woman is neither Open nor Closed”
  17. 10 “With Tenderness and Respect for the Blameless Vulva”
  18. 11 Mutilation and Repair: In Search of le mot juste
  19. 12 Technologically Modified Bodies: Paul B. Preciado and Transfeminism
  20. 13 Nymphs 4: Nymphomaniac – “Mea vulva, mea maximum vulva”
  21. 14 Ecstasy Zones in the Real
  22. 15 Clitoris, Anarchy and the Feminine
  23. Index
  24. End User License Agreement