| The Social Construction of Sexuality and Perversion: Deconstructing Sadomasochism 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Beckmann, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230522106 ISBN-13: 9780230522107 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: This book deconstructs the "social" construction of 'Sadomasochism' via insights into the lived realities of consensual 'SM' practitioners. Through this fascinating ethnographic approach, Andrea Beckmann defamiliarizes 'sexuality' and 'sadomasochism' and exposes their true functional relationship to power. "The Social Construction of Sadomasochism" thus provides a broadly relevant argument that makes a considerable contribution to contemporary debates about the 'body', 'sexualities', the 'care of self' and the 'postmodernization of intimacy'. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Psychology | Personality |
| Dewey: 306.775 |
| LCCN: 2009042548 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 262 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book deconstructs the pathologizing category of 'sadomasochism' in order to account for the 'lived realities' of consensual 'SM' play, emphasizing the connection between the corporeal and the political in contemporary consumer cultures. It discusses the homogenization of desire and ownership and use of 'body' and 'sexual ethics'. |
