Counterpleasures
By: Karmen MacKendrick.
Series: The SUNY series in postmodern culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Pleasure.; Sadomasochism.; Asceticism.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index.