The Social Construction of Sexuality and Perversion: Deconstructing Sadomasochism
✍ Scribed by Andrea Beckmann (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 268
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Deconstructing ‘Normalizing’ Concepts....Pages 11-62
The ‘Field’: ‘Lived Experiences’ of Consensual ‘SM’ and ‘Subjugated Knowledges’....Pages 63-124
‘Sadomasochism’ — a Social Construction and Its Use....Pages 125-152
Challenging Claims of a Non-violent Modernity....Pages 153-174
Consensual ‘SM’ as a Spiritual Practice and the Experience of ‘Transcendence’....Pages 175-227
Alternative Readings of Consensual ‘SM’....Pages 228-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-262
✦ Subjects
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general;Sociology of the Body;Personality and Social Psychology;Psychopathology;Forensic Psychology;Sexual Behavior
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