Lisa Downing
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lisa Downing is an author and academic. She is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham. Downing's work is innovative in its dialogue between the critical humanities and the sciences, especially psychiatry. Her published work focuses principally on theories of sexual perversion and queer theory; the work of Michel Foucault; ethical philosophy and film; and, most recently, the cultural meanings of criminality.
Lisa Downing's Published Works
Published Works
- Beyond Sexuality (2005) (107)
- Safewording! Kinkphobia and gender normativity in Fifty Shades of Grey (2013) (59)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (2008) (53)
- Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters (2009) (51)
- The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer (2013) (27)
- Viewing critical psychology through the lens of queer (2011) (25)
- Heteronormativity and Repronormativity in Sexological “Perversion Theory” and the DSM-5’s “Paraphilic Disorder” Diagnoses (2015) (24)
- French Cinema’s New ‘Sexual Revolution’: Postmodern Porn and Troubled Genre (2004) (24)
- On the limits of sexual ethics: The phenomenology of autassassinophilia (2004) (19)
- Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-century French Literature (2002) (18)
- Feminine Sexual Pathologies (2008) (14)
- The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture (2009) (12)
- Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts (2014) (12)
- Murder in the Feminine: Marie Lafarge and the Sexualization of the Nineteenth-Century Criminal Woman (2008) (12)
- Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits, and Pornography: Fin-de-Siècle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde (review) (2011) (10)
- The body politic: Gender, the right wing and ‘identity category violations’ (2018) (10)
- Film and Ethics (2009) (9)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Frontmatter (2008) (9)
- Baise-moi or the Ethics of the Desiring Gaze (2006) (8)
- Notes on a proto-queer Rachilde: Decadence, deviance and (reverse) discourse in La Marquise de Sade (2012) (8)
- Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis (2018) (8)
- From perversion to purity : the stardom of Catherine Deneuve (2007) (7)
- Georges Bataille at the Avant-garde of Queer Theory?: Transgression, Perversion and Death Drive (2011) (7)
- Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Aesthetic Violence and Motiveless Murder in French Decadent Fiction (2004) (7)
- Perversion and the Social Relation (2007) (7)
- De-Centring western sexualities: central and eastern European perspectives (2013) (6)
- John Money's ‘Normophilia’: diagnosing sexual normality in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American sexology (2010) (6)
- Interdisciplinarity, Cultural Studies, Queer: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Contentions in France (2012) (5)
- Re-viewing the Sexual Relation: Levinas and Film (2007) (5)
- Power for Pleasure (2013) (4)
- Queer in Europe (2014) (4)
- The Birth of the Beast: Death-Driven Masculinity in Monneret, Zola and Freud (2005) (4)
- Modernism and perversion: sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850–1930, by Anna Katherina Schaffner (2014) (3)
- The Iconography of Asphyxiophilia: From Fantasmatic Fetish to Forensic Fact (2004) (3)
- Perversion and the Problem of Fluidity and Fixity (2017) (3)
- Reading Bitchy Jones's Diary: sex blogging, community-building and feminism(s) (2012) (3)
- Sexual Perversion as Textual Resistance in the Works of Rachilde and Monique Wittig (2012) (2)
- Between Men and Women; Beyond Heterosexuality: Limits and Possibilities of the Erotic in Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed and Patrice Leconte's La Fille Sur Le Pont (2002) (2)
- The natural and the normal in the history of sexuality (2010) (2)
- Feminist fictions of the flesh (?): Alina Reyes's Le Boucher and Rachilde's La Marquise de Sade (2002) (2)
- Death and the Maidens: A Century of Necrophilia in Female-Authored Textual Production (2003) (2)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Works: madness and medicine (2008) (2)
- Foucault and the History of our Present. Edited by Sophie Fuggle, Yari Lanci, and Martina Tazzioli. (2016) (2)
- Eros and Thanatos in European and American Sexology (2011) (1)
- Dying for Sex: Cultural and Forensic Narratives of Autoerotic Death (2016) (1)
- Antisocial Feminism? Shulamith Firestone, Monique Wittig and Proto-Queer Theory (2018) (1)
- Introduction (2012) (1)
- Where’s Girlhood? The Female Child Killer in Where’s Mary? (Tony Hickson, 2005) (2016) (1)
- Gendered Constructions of the Nightmare in French Nineteenth-Century Medical Writing and Fantastic Fiction (2012) (1)
- Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic Archive (2014) (1)
- Straight Necrophilia as a Queer Perversion in Lynne Stopkewich’s Kissed (2017) (1)
- The translation of deployment / the deployment of translation: the dispositif in Foucault, his exegetes and his translator (2010) (0)
- The philosophy of selfishness (2019) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Works: The History of Sexuality (2008) (0)
- Critical sexology seminar series: Outness and sexual self-disclosure in academia and the clinic (2006) (0)
- Case Report: Brachial Neuritis in a Patient with Epstein Barr Virus. (2019) (0)
- Malebranche and Ideas.Treatise on Nature and Grace (1995) (0)
- Lisa Downing Book Review: Further Adventures of ‘The Dialectic of Sex’: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone edited by Mandy Merck and Stella Sandford Studies in the Maternal, 4(1), 2012, www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk (2012) (0)
- Terry Goldie. The Man Who Invented Gender: Engaging the Ideas of John Money. Vancouver; Toronto: UBC Press, 2014. 276 pp. CAN$29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780774827935. (2015) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Works: crime and punishment (2008) (0)
- Method in Madness: Control Mechanisms in the French Fantastic (review) (2007) (0)
- Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema (review) (2008) (0)
- Power for pleasure: review of Margot Weiss, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2011) (2013) (0)
- Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture (review) (2010) (0)
- of the nineteenth century and of women's writing that merits being widely read and thoroughly discussed. (2006) (0)
- Aesthetics, Values and Autobiography in the Works of Willa Cather and Marguerite Duras by Erna Cooper (review) (2019) (0)
- Serial Killing and the Dissident Woman (2013) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Works: authors and texts (2008) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Life, texts, contexts (2008) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Notes (2008) (0)
- Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault by Azucena G. Blanco (review) (2022) (0)
- The psychopathology of selfishness (2019) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Critical receptions (2008) (0)
- Selfish Cinema: Sex, Heroism, and Control in Adaptations of Ayn Rand for the Screen (2020) (0)
- Real Murderer and False Poet (2013) (0)
- Female Philosophers and Form: Rand, Murdoch and Mondzain (2015) (0)
- Foucault and the History of our Present ed. by Sophie Fuggle, Yari Lanci, and Martina Tazzioli (review) (2016) (0)
- ‘(S)extremism’: Imagining Violent Women in the Twenty-First Century with Navine G. Khan-Dossos and Julia Kristeva (2020) (0)
- A feminist ethics of selfishness? (2019) (0)
- The Case for Character Strengths In College Admissions Advising: The Way You Are is a Great Way to Be (2019) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Works: the death of man (2008) (0)
- The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle (review) (2008) (0)
- Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone, edited by Mandy Merck and Stella Sandford (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), 286 pp., ISBN: 9780230100299, £58 hardback. (2012) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: The Cambridge Introductions to … (2008) (0)
- Polanski’s Deneuve (2019) (0)
- Critical Sexology seminar series Heterosexualities (2006) (0)
- Desire and immobility (1999) (0)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault: Selected further reading (2008) (0)
- Heteronormativity and Repronormativity in Sexological “Perversion Theory” and the DSM-5’s “Paraphilic Disorder” Diagnoses (2015) (0)
- Review: Maternal Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes‐Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine (2003) (0)
- The Measure of ' Sexual Dysfunction ' : A Plea for Theoretical Limitlessness (2016) (0)
- Desire and immobility : situating necrophilia in nineteenth-century French literature (1999) (0)
- Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism, Masochism and Historical Teleology by Alison Moore (review) (2017) (0)
- Personal and professional practices of selfishness (2019) (0)
- The early and influential role of science fantasy in sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century England, France, and Germany: A selected account (2013) (0)
- The Iconography of Autoerotic Asphyxiation: From Fantasmatic Fetish to Forensic Fact (2020) (0)
- The politics of selfishness (2019) (0)
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