Nathalie Lugand

A Psychodynamic Approach to Female Domination in BDSM Relationships

Sexuality Between Pleasure and Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking book explores contemporary forms of BDSM where women dominate in relationships and professions, opening new paths for psychological research in commercial and non-commercial BDSM.

Based on a unique combination of qualitative investigation and academic research, it examines how BDSM has often crystalized conflicts in contemporary feminist debates, where sexually dominant women are pictured either as victims or as agents of resistance to the patriarchy. Nathalie Lugand argues that female domination in heterosexual BDSM is above all situated in a continuum structured by the values of care and by the circulation of money. Through a novel psychodynamic approach, Lugand demystifies BDSM relationships where women dominate, considering the impact of social relations of work in the construction of sexual identity and analyzing the difficulties that they cause in the erotic economy. The book affirms that to better understand the pleasure taken in female domination practices and the difficulties for women to impose themselves as dominatrixes, it is necessary to shift the focus away from transgressive aspects and look towards the workplace and the organisation of work in women's sexuality.

Using field immersion to comprehensively investigate the blurred boundaries between life and work in the BDSM community, A Psychodynamic Approach to Female Domination in BDSM Relationships provides the opportunity for a new interpretation of sexuality, overturning the existing theoretical frameworks used in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis. This book is essential reading for researchers and academics in psychology, gender studies, political and social sciences, and human sexuality, as well as activists defending the human rights of sex workers around the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 215g
• ISBN-13: 9781032192925
• ISBN-10: 1032192925
• Artikelnr.: 65613219

Autorenporträt

Nathalie Lugand is a member of the research laboratory UTRPP (transversal unity of psychogenesis and psychopathology) at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord. Her work focuses on the relationship between gender, sexuality, work, and mental health.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Research methods, design and ethics 1. Pleasure in female domination practices and female labor 2. Working as a professional dominatrix 3. The ideology of female Supremacy in the name of the mother 4. Neighbourhood Dominas and Pigeons: An Intersectional Approach to Financial Slavery on Facebook 5. Conclusion

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Introduction Research methods, design and ethics 1. Pleasure in female
domination practices and female labor 2. Working as a professional
dominatrix 3. The ideology of female Supremacy in the name of the mother 4.
Neighbourhood Dominas and Pigeons: An Intersectional Approach to Financial
Slavery on Facebook 5. Conclusion

Rezensionen

'Nathalie Lugand skilfully crosses two traditionally separate fields of study - work and sexuality - and transforms our perspective on desire. This book is provocative, bold and out of the box. A must read.'
Pascale Molinier, Professor of Social Psychology, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France