About the author: Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham. Her most recent book-length publications are After Foucault, as editor (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Selfish Women (Routledge, 2019). She is currently completing a monograph-manifesto, entitled Against Affect, funded in 2021-2 by a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship.
Lisa Downing's comprehensive study of the films of PatriceLeconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparentlydisparate films whose "messages" often appear both contradictory andcontroversial. -- .
One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists, John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. This book focuses on his three key diagnostic concepts, "hermaphroditism," "transsexualism," and "paraphilia".
The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. In this title, the author explores the ways in which the figure of the murderer has been made to signify a specific kind of social subject in Western modernity.
Considers a range of films and texts of film criticism alongside disparate philosophical discourses of ethics by Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, and Lacanian psychoanalysts and postmodern theorists.
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