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Playing on the Edge
Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy|
20,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 14.02.2011 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253005120 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 244 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space in which experiences of "violence" intersect with experiences of the erotic. She shows that SM is a recreational and deeply gendered risk-taking endeavor, through which participants negotiate boundaries between chaos and order. 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.</p>
<p>Contents<br>Acknowledgments</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>Part 1: People<br> 1. Defiance: Bodies, Minds, and Marginality<br> 2. Geeks and Freaks: Marginal Identity and Community</p>
<p>Part 2: Play<br> 3. Tipping the Scales: Striving for Imbalance<br> 4. Fringe Benefits: The Rewards of SM Play<br> 5. Badasses, Servants, and Martyrs: Gender Performances</p>
<p>Part 3: Edges<br> 6. Reconcilable Differences: Pain, Eroticism, and Violence<br> 7. Collaborating the Edge: Feminism and Edgework<br> 8. "What It Is That We Do": Intimate Edgework</p>
<p>Concluding Notes: Erotic Subjectivity and the Construction of the Field<br>Glossary<br>Notes<br>Bibliography<br>Index</p>
<p>Introduction</p>
<p>Part 1: People<br> 1. Defiance: Bodies, Minds, and Marginality<br> 2. Geeks and Freaks: Marginal Identity and Community</p>
<p>Part 2: Play<br> 3. Tipping the Scales: Striving for Imbalance<br> 4. Fringe Benefits: The Rewards of SM Play<br> 5. Badasses, Servants, and Martyrs: Gender Performances</p>
<p>Part 3: Edges<br> 6. Reconcilable Differences: Pain, Eroticism, and Violence<br> 7. Collaborating the Edge: Feminism and Edgework<br> 8. "What It Is That We Do": Intimate Edgework</p>
<p>Concluding Notes: Erotic Subjectivity and the Construction of the Field<br>Glossary<br>Notes<br>Bibliography<br>Index</p>
<p>Constructing intimacy in SM play and beyond</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Connect with Staci Newmahr: <a href="http://twitter.com/SocDocSN">Twitter</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Playing-on-the-Edge-by-Staci-Newmahr/168397289866502?ref=pb">Facebook</a></p>
<p>A fascinating, well-written, carefully researched book that illuminates a subculture about which we know very little. . . . Never before have we had research that is so close to the community, that allows us inside this community's behavior, rationalizations, understandings, and lived experiences.</p>
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