{"product_id":"troubled-pleasures-kate-soper-9780860915362","title":"Troubled Pleasures: Writings on Politics, Gender and Hedonism","description":"What happens when 'life's simple joys' become complicated? When pleasure is transformed as a function of consumption, the innocent comforts of food, nature and place are embedded in complex practices of distribution and exploitation. Exotic and diverse objects of pleasure are made available only at the price of a heightened awareness of their origins, genealogies and possible effects; 'authenticity' recedes behind objects produced as pleasures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTroubled Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e considers the ways in which modern pleasure is fraught with unhappy implications, at the same time as contemporary critical arguments put into question the touchstones of identity, morality, subjectivity and desire. It brings together writings which explore the sources of pleasure's 'loss of innocence', and which argue the case for a scrupulous 'alternative hedonism'. Including essays on human needs, socialism and gender, a feminist response to Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, and a fictional reflection on appetite and excess, \u003ci\u003eTroubled Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e plots an Epicurean path between righteous asceticism and conspicuous consumption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Soper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0860915360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780860915362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.17h x 5.97w x 0.87d","brand":"Kate Soper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46401463091455,"sku":"9780860915362","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_280f1e0e-b22d-4ed2-8ed4-09eac649ad26.jpg?v=1733887634","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/troubled-pleasures-kate-soper-9780860915362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}