Counterpleasures

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Counterpleasures is written by Karmen MacKendrick and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1438411588 (ISBN 10) and 9781438411583 (ISBN 13).

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.