Author: Robin Ruth Linden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Against Sadomasochism
Author: Robin Ruth Linden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States
Author: Stephen K. Stein
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000346072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite chronicles the development of sadomasochistic sexuality and its communities in the United States from the post-war period to the present day. Having evolved from scattered networks of sadomasochists to a coherent body bound by shared principles of "safe, sane, consensual," activists worked to transform popular perceptions of their community, end its routine harassment by law enforcement and win inclusion in American society. Often paralleling the work of LGBTQ activists, people who engaged in BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism) transformed both their own sexual practices and how outsiders perceived them, successfully changing popular perceptions of them from fascists, murderers, and outlaws to people living an alternative lifestyle. The development of this community highlights the interactions of people of different sexual orientations within a sexual community, the influence of various campaigns for sexual freedom, and the BDSM community's influence on popular perceptions of sexuality and sexual freedom. The text’s historical perspective gives depth and texture to a specific dimension of American history of sexuality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the history of sexuality. Its clear and direct approach offers an important and useful chronology of a movement that has long been neglected.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000346072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite chronicles the development of sadomasochistic sexuality and its communities in the United States from the post-war period to the present day. Having evolved from scattered networks of sadomasochists to a coherent body bound by shared principles of "safe, sane, consensual," activists worked to transform popular perceptions of their community, end its routine harassment by law enforcement and win inclusion in American society. Often paralleling the work of LGBTQ activists, people who engaged in BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism) transformed both their own sexual practices and how outsiders perceived them, successfully changing popular perceptions of them from fascists, murderers, and outlaws to people living an alternative lifestyle. The development of this community highlights the interactions of people of different sexual orientations within a sexual community, the influence of various campaigns for sexual freedom, and the BDSM community's influence on popular perceptions of sexuality and sexual freedom. The text’s historical perspective gives depth and texture to a specific dimension of American history of sexuality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the history of sexuality. Its clear and direct approach offers an important and useful chronology of a movement that has long been neglected.
Sadomasochism
Author: Peggy J. Kleinplatz
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781560236405
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This book has been co-published as Journal of Homosexuality volume 50, numbers 2/3, 2006
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781560236405
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This book has been co-published as Journal of Homosexuality volume 50, numbers 2/3, 2006
Unleashing Feminism
Author: Irene Reti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Lesbian Heresy
Author: Sheila Jeffreys
Publisher: Spinifex Press
ISBN: 9781875559176
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Annotation. A critique of the lesbian sex industry's efforts to profit from women's oppression.
Publisher: Spinifex Press
ISBN: 9781875559176
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Annotation. A critique of the lesbian sex industry's efforts to profit from women's oppression.
Lesbian Sex Scandals
Author: Dawn Atkins
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780789005489
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Lesbian Sex Scandals addresses the contradictory separation of lesbian sexuality from lesbian identity. Readers will gain unique insight into the blending of feminism and lesbianism and see how it has sometimes failed in acknowledging the reality of lesbian sexual experiences. As the contributors to this collection document, sexual practices are often at the core of lesbian sexual identities, communities, and politics, but are usually down-played when exploring lesbian identity.The contributors to Lesbian Sex Scandals address important, real issues of sexual practice and sexual politics. They explore important experiences, questions, and directions concerning lesbian sexuality, giving you keen insight into the possibility for renewed lesbian sexualities. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780789005489
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Lesbian Sex Scandals addresses the contradictory separation of lesbian sexuality from lesbian identity. Readers will gain unique insight into the blending of feminism and lesbianism and see how it has sometimes failed in acknowledging the reality of lesbian sexual experiences. As the contributors to this collection document, sexual practices are often at the core of lesbian sexual identities, communities, and politics, but are usually down-played when exploring lesbian identity.The contributors to Lesbian Sex Scandals address important, real issues of sexual practice and sexual politics. They explore important experiences, questions, and directions concerning lesbian sexuality, giving you keen insight into the possibility for renewed lesbian sexualities. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Language of Sadomasochism
Author: Thomas Murray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313387834
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Language of Sadomasochism contains vocabulary and defines activities that many will find offensive. It has been published to aid linguists, folklorists, sociologists, psychologists, and other adult researchers develop a better understanding of this subculture. The Language of Sadomasochism represents the first systematic, comprehensive account ever attempted of the specialized terminology used by sadomasochists. The work is divided into three distinct sections. Part one provides a thorough introduction to the subculture of sadomasochism, its history in the Western world, and its place in American culture, in literature, and in the work of non-linguist social scientists. Part two is a comprehensive glossary of more than 800 terms currently in use among sadomasochists. For each term the authors provide part-of-speech labels, etymologies, definitions, citations illustrating actual usage, related forms of the word, cross references to semantically and conceptually related terms, and special notes on usage. Part three contains a linguistic analysis of the terminology and illustrates how the language of sadomasochism is related both to the English language as a whole and to the sadomasochists who use the specialized language. The book concludes with a complete bibliography of all references cited, a list of difficult-to-find sadomasochism-related periodicals, and an index providing easy access to groups of semantically and conceptually related terms.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313387834
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Language of Sadomasochism contains vocabulary and defines activities that many will find offensive. It has been published to aid linguists, folklorists, sociologists, psychologists, and other adult researchers develop a better understanding of this subculture. The Language of Sadomasochism represents the first systematic, comprehensive account ever attempted of the specialized terminology used by sadomasochists. The work is divided into three distinct sections. Part one provides a thorough introduction to the subculture of sadomasochism, its history in the Western world, and its place in American culture, in literature, and in the work of non-linguist social scientists. Part two is a comprehensive glossary of more than 800 terms currently in use among sadomasochists. For each term the authors provide part-of-speech labels, etymologies, definitions, citations illustrating actual usage, related forms of the word, cross references to semantically and conceptually related terms, and special notes on usage. Part three contains a linguistic analysis of the terminology and illustrates how the language of sadomasochism is related both to the English language as a whole and to the sadomasochists who use the specialized language. The book concludes with a complete bibliography of all references cited, a list of difficult-to-find sadomasochism-related periodicals, and an index providing easy access to groups of semantically and conceptually related terms.
The World Split Open
Author: Ruth Rosen
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
ISBN: 1618030981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly evokes the events and people who participated in our era's most far-reaching social revolution.
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
ISBN: 1618030981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly evokes the events and people who participated in our era's most far-reaching social revolution.
Against Our Will
Author: Susan Brownmiller
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480441953
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 767
Book Description
DIVDIVSusan Brownmiller’s groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape—now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present today/divDIV Rape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it has been viewed as an acceptable “spoil of war,” used as a weapon by invading armies to crush the will of the conquered. The act of rape against women has long been cloaked in lies and false justifications./divDIV It is ignored, tolerated, even encouraged by governments and military leaders, misunderstood by police and security organizations, freely employed by domineering husbands and lovers, downplayed by medical and legal professionals more inclined to “blame the victim,” and, perhaps most shockingly, accepted in supposedly civilized societies worldwide, including the United States./divDIV Against Our Will is a classic work that has been widely credited with changing prevailing attitudes about violence against women by awakening the public to the true and continuing tragedy of rape around the globe and throughout the ages./divDIV Selected by the New York Times Book Review as an Outstanding Book of the Year and included among the New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, Against Our Will remains an essential work of sociological and historical importance./divDIV/div/div
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480441953
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 767
Book Description
DIVDIVSusan Brownmiller’s groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape—now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present today/divDIV Rape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it has been viewed as an acceptable “spoil of war,” used as a weapon by invading armies to crush the will of the conquered. The act of rape against women has long been cloaked in lies and false justifications./divDIV It is ignored, tolerated, even encouraged by governments and military leaders, misunderstood by police and security organizations, freely employed by domineering husbands and lovers, downplayed by medical and legal professionals more inclined to “blame the victim,” and, perhaps most shockingly, accepted in supposedly civilized societies worldwide, including the United States./divDIV Against Our Will is a classic work that has been widely credited with changing prevailing attitudes about violence against women by awakening the public to the true and continuing tragedy of rape around the globe and throughout the ages./divDIV Selected by the New York Times Book Review as an Outstanding Book of the Year and included among the New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, Against Our Will remains an essential work of sociological and historical importance./divDIV/div/div
Aesthetic Sexuality
Author: Romana Byrne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441158790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first volume of Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault's assertions that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern Western culture while ars erotica belongs to Eastern and ancient societies, Byrne suggests that modern Western culture has indeed witnessed a form of ars erotica, encompassed in what she calls 'aesthetic sexuality'. To argue for the existence of aesthetic sexuality, Byrne examines mainly works of literature to show how, within these texts, sexual practice and pleasure are constructed as having aesthetic value, a quality that marks these experiences as forms of art. In aesthetic sexuality, value and meaning are located within sexual practice and pleasure rather than in their underlying cause; sexuality's raison d'être is tied to its aesthetic value, at surface level rather than beneath it. Aesthetic sexuality, Byrne shows, is a product of choice, a deliberate strategy of self-creation as well as a mode of social communication.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441158790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first volume of Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault's assertions that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern Western culture while ars erotica belongs to Eastern and ancient societies, Byrne suggests that modern Western culture has indeed witnessed a form of ars erotica, encompassed in what she calls 'aesthetic sexuality'. To argue for the existence of aesthetic sexuality, Byrne examines mainly works of literature to show how, within these texts, sexual practice and pleasure are constructed as having aesthetic value, a quality that marks these experiences as forms of art. In aesthetic sexuality, value and meaning are located within sexual practice and pleasure rather than in their underlying cause; sexuality's raison d'être is tied to its aesthetic value, at surface level rather than beneath it. Aesthetic sexuality, Byrne shows, is a product of choice, a deliberate strategy of self-creation as well as a mode of social communication.