Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality - Brossura

Weiss, Margot

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ISBN 10: 0822351595 ISBN 13: 9780822351597

Casa editrice: Duke Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Techniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area’s pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and she interviewed more than sixty SM practitioners. She describes a scene devoted to a form of erotic play organized around technique, rules and regulations, consumerism, and self-mastery. Challenging the notion that SM is inherently transgressive, Weiss links the development of commodity-oriented sexual communities and the expanding market for sex toys to the eroticization of gendered, racialized, and national inequalities. She analyzes the politics of BDSM’s spectacular performances, including those that dramatize heterosexual male dominance, slave auctions, and US imperialism, and contends that the SM scene is not a “safe space” separate from real-world inequality. It depends, like all sexual desire, on social hierarchies. Based on this analysis, Weiss theorizes late-capitalist sexuality as a circuit—one connecting the promise of new emancipatory pleasures to the reproduction of raced and gendered social norms.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Margot Weiss is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Duke Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0822351595
• ISBN 13: 9780822351597
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 315