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Performing sex : the making and unmaking of women's erotic lives

Author

Fahs, Breanne.

Title

Performing sex : the making and unmaking of women's erotic lives / Breanne Fahs.

Format

Book

Published

Albany : State University of New York, Albany, c2011.

Description

xi, 364 pages ; 23 cm

URL

<Table of contents> http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=024545815&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA <Table of contents> http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=024545815&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-352) and index.

Contents

• Getting, giving, faking, having: orgasm and the performance of pleasure
• Compulsory bisexuality? The challenges of modern sexual fluidity
• The rise of Viagra for women : how sexual pharmaceuticals medi(c)ate desire
• On the many joys of sex : pleasure, love, and the gendered body
• The culture of domination : sexual violence, objectification, and access
• Imaginary and imagination : pornography and sexual fantasy in everyday life.

Summary

A candid and provocative critique of women's sexual liberation in America. Although 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. Publisher's note.

Subject headings

Women--Sexual behavior. Sex (Psychology) Women and erotica.

ISBN

9781438437828 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 143843782X (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9781438437811 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 1438437811 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Standard Identifier

40019996691