Engages Foucault in dismantling norms and de-stabilising sexual identities. This book weaves philosophical ideas into a narrative of personal exploration. It argues that Foucault's texts should be read less for the arguments they advance and more for their transformative effect.

"Bodies and Pleasures" takes the reader beyond unexplored norms and imposed identities as it points the way toward a personal politics, ethics, and style that challenges our sexual selves.

AbbreviationsIntroduction: Foucault's Impact: Challenges and Transformations 1: Views from the Site of Political Oppression: Or, How I served as an Anchor Point for Power and Emerged as a Locus of Resistance 2: Genealogical Diversions: Wherein the Ascetic Priestess Loses Her Way and Begins to Wander Aimlessly Through Dem Ole Cotton Fields Back Home 3: Why I Shouldn't Like Foucault ... So They Say 4: Disorientation: Or, Beyond Sex-Desire 5: Natural Bodies: Or, Ain't Nobody Here But Us Deviants 6: Self-Overcoming Through Ascetic Pleasures 7: Counterattack: An Ethics of StyleInconclusionNotes
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