Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization

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 Index