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Loading... Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Livesby Breanne Fahs
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Silver Medalist, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Issues categoryHonorable Mention, 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues CategoryAlthough conventional wisdom holds that women in the United States today are more sexually liberated than ever before, a number of startling statistics call into question this perceived victory: over half of all women report having faked orgasms; 45 percent of women find rape fantasies erotic; a growing number of women perform same-sex eroticism for the viewing benefit of men; and recent clinical studies label 40 percent of women as "sexually dysfunctional." Caught between postsexual revolution celebrations of progress and alarmingly regressive new modes of disempowerment, the forty women interviewed in Performing Sex offer a candid and provocative portrait of "liberated" sex in America. Through this nuanced and complex study, Breanne Fahs demonstrates that despite the constant cooptation of the terms of sexual freedom, women's sexual subjectivities—and the ways they continually grapple with shifting definitions of liberation—represent provocative spaces for critical inquiry and personal discovery, ultimately generating novel ways of imagining and reimagining power, pleasure, and resistance. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.7082Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Relations between the sexes, sexualities, love Culture StudiesLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |