Staci Newmahr

Playing on the Edge

Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Playing on the Edge challenges our assumptions about sadomasochism, sexuality, eroticism, and emotional experience, exploring what we mean by intimacy, and how, exactly, we achieve it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780253222855
• ISBN-10: 0253222850
• Artikelnr.: 32730940

Autorenporträt

Staci Newmahr is an ethnographer. Her work plays with intersections of risk, eroticism, and gender. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Buffalo State College.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: People
1. Defiance: Bodies, Minds, and Marginality
2. Geeks and Freaks: Marginal Identity and Community
Part 2: Play
3. Tipping the Scales: Striving for Imbalance
4. Fringe Benefits: The Rewards of SM Play
5. Badasses, Servants, and Martyrs: Gender Performances
Part 3: Edges
6. Reconcilable Differences: Pain, Eroticism, and Violence
7. Collaborating the Edge: Feminism and Edgework
8. "What It Is That We Do": Intimate Edgework
Concluding Notes: Erotic Subjectivity and the Construction of the Field
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index