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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Translator’s Preface1. Erasures2. Nymphs 1: Virtual Goddesses3. Nymphs 2: Images without Genitals4.  Nymphs 3: Nadja, Or a Being Without Life5. Political Anatomy6. “Sexual Existence” According to Simone de Beauvoir7. Dolto, Lacan and the “Relationship”8. “The Feminine Sexual Organ is the Clitoris”: Carla Lonzi and the Feminism of Difference9.  Luce Irigaray: “Woman is Neither Open nor Closed”10. “With Tenderness and Respect for the Blameless Vulva”11. Mutilation and Repair: In Search of le mot juste12. Technologically Modified Bodies: Paul B. Preciado and Transfeminism13. Nymphomaniac: “Mea vulva, mea maximum vulva”14. Ecstasy Zones in the Real15. Clitoris, Anarchy and the FeminineNotes
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“A project whose glaring absence has been hiding in plain sight, clitoral pleasure has finally found its philosopher. Malabou tells us what we can do with our clitoral brain, uncloaking its agency and anarchic politics. Essential reading for anyone interested in interpreting sex otherwise than phallic and in relation to philosophy’s power to shape the soma.”Emily Apter, New York University
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781509549931
Publisert
2022-07-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Polity Press
Vekt
181 gr
Høyde
191 mm
Bredde
125 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
150

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Oversetter

Biographical note

Catherine Malabou is Professor of Philosophy at Kingston University London