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differences (1993) 5 (1): 73–91.
Published: 01 April 1993
... : Routledge , 1989 . 189 - 205 . Mulvey Laura . “ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema .” Screen 16 . 3 ( 1975 ): 6 - 18 . Rose Jacqueline . Sexuality in the Field of Vision . London : Verso , 1986 . Sandow Gregory . “ Rhythm and Ooze .” Village Voice 18 Aug . 1987...
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differences (1995) 7 (2): 16–40.
Published: 01 July 1995
... . “ Imitation and Gender Insubordination .” Fuss , 13 – 31 . Castle Terry . “ The Female Thermometer .” Representations 17 ( Winter 1987 ): 1 – 27 . Cleland John . Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure . Ed. Sabor Peter . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1985 . A Conference about...
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differences (2006) 17 (2): 113–131.
Published: 01 September 2006
... . New York: Columbia up, 1988 . MacKinnon, Catharine A. Only Words . Cambridge: Harvard up, 1993 . Williams, Linda. Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible” . 2nd ed. Berkeley: u of California p, 1999 . Wright, Elizabeth. Speaking Desires Can Be Dangerous: A Poetics...
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 1992
... , 1986 . Derrida Jacques . The Truth in Painting . Trans. Bennington Geoff and McLeod Ian . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1987 . Freud Sigmund . Beyond the Pleasure Principle . 1920 . The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . Trans...
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 137–168.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Corey McEleney This essay critiques the rhetorical and ideological strategies by which aesthetic pleasure has been devalued in both Renaissance and contemporary humanism. Through a close reading of Shakespeare's Richard II , the essay shows how the abjection of vain (both narcissistic and futile...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 209–217.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Elizabeth Weed “Reading for Pleasure” suggests a way of drawing the line between what is and what is not theory today. Following Roland Barthes, the author uses her own reading pleasure as a gauge, taking pleasure to be idiosyncratic rather than subjective. Assuming that all types of criticism...
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differences (1989) 1 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 February 1989
... . Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexualities . London : Routledge , 1985 . Bodies - Pleasures - Powers LINDA SINGER AthOUgh the 1960s are the decade usually credited with making sex a political issue and the subject of popular and scholarly discourse, the 1980s have been...
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differences (2003) 14 (3): 57–88.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... Suzanne Barnard and Bruce Fink. Albany: suny p, 2002 . 171 -86. Barthes, Roland. A Lover's Discourse:Fragments . Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill, 1978 . ____. Camera Lucida: Ref lections on Photography . Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill, 1981 . ____. The Pleasure of the Text...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 69–93.
Published: 01 September 2021
... into the pleasures of interpretation and speculates on the ways historiography invests in the white woman in order to extend its interlocutory life. Works Cited Abdur-Rahman Aliyyah . “ ‘The Strangest Freaks of Despotism’: Queer Sexuality in Antebellum African American Slave Narratives .” African...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 100–118.
Published: 01 May 2019
...: the sadomasochistic blur of sexuality and violence. In effect, she sets up an s/m scene of and for feminism. The self-flagellating reading pleasures of MacKinnon unsettle the relation between her dismissal of lesbian sadomasochism and her own s/m textuality. This is not to say that her argument is flawed...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 86–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Tracy McNulty As a drive to the inorganic, the death drive is fundamentally opposed to sensuality and, specifically, to pleasure and pain. This is why Gilles Deleuze understands Freud’s account of the death drive as the “beyond of the pleasure principle” not in terms of the transgression...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 58–85.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Matthew Gannon This essay argues not only that Wilhelm Worringer’s concept of the urge to abstraction from his work of art history Abstraction and Empathy (1908) prefigures Sigmund Freud’s notion of the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) but also that Worringer’s aesthetics...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 34–62.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and rioters. My essay returns to the survivor testimonies of 2002 in an effort to rethink, on the one hand, the status of sexual pleasure/sexual violence in the riots and, on the other, the limits of feminist identification with the Muslim victim-survivors. I argue that sexuality was crucial to all...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 115–151.
Published: 01 September 2020
... material shape it took, and how it altered the colonial landscape—has entwined forms of surveillance, suspicion, and sexuality, deeply affecting how individuals gauge, judge, sense, watch, and seduce one another. Ideology, in other words, haunts pleasure as it lurks within and through built environments...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 267–275.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-place Romanticism, quite unlike any available version, a Romanticism of “unqualified negativity” and “aspiring openness” with an eye and an ear to unknown pleasures. [email protected] © 2023 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2023 Works Cited...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 84–108.
Published: 01 September 2023
... is replete with asexual encounters. In other words, it is not Adonis alone who spurns sexual romance. Venus’s insatiable kissing is a textbook example of Freud’s point about the paradoxicality of sex: when it comes to the pleasures of kissing, Freud says, “It’s a pity I can’t kiss myself.” This essay reads...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2019
... politics of the contemporary moment, with broad speculation on the political demands, critical inheritances, and contradictory politics of #MeToo. The middle thematic attends to the vicissitudes of sex in the conjuncture between perversion and pleasure, with considerations of the historical construction...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Lucie Cantin From the moment Freud first came up against repetition and the resistance of the symptom in his clinical practice and was thus forced to acknowledge a beyond of the pleasure principle that acts within the subject, the unconscious could no longer be conceived as a site...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 156–164.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... This sheds light on Bersani’s familiar notions of inaccurate replication and homo-narcissism within his broader exploration of potential intimacies pleasurably discovered via a sense of universal sameness as opposed to the often murderous fixation on identity and difference. For Bersani, human being...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 32–54.
Published: 01 September 2024
... telling while feeding on the rough laughter and crass pleasure of readers and hearers to create something like survival, or at least having the last laugh. Evelynn Hammonds fable grounded theory LGBTQ+ academics self-defense storytelling method writerly extravagance In the following, I...
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