Lisa Downing

Lisa Downing works in the humanities, focusing on French cultural studies, film, and philosophy, particularly the ideas of Michel Foucault. Her writing addresses topics such as gender, sexuality, feminism, ethics, and their representation in cinema and literature, often examining debates around consent, violence, and 'sex-negative' or 'sex-critical' feminist thought. She also engages with intellectual history and philosophy of the early modern period (e.g., Hobbes and Locke) in some collaborative or reviewed works.

Publication output was highest around 2018-2019 and has since slowed to a steadier, lower rate of one to a few outputs per year in recent years.

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