Silver Medalist, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women’s Issues category
Honorable Mention, 2011 Fore Word Book of the Year in the Women’s Issues Category
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.
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Getting, Giving, Faking, Having: Orgasm and the Performance of Pleasure
2. Compulsory Bisexuality? The Challenges of Modern Sexual Fluidity
3. The Rise of Viagra for Women: How Sexual Pharmaceuticals Medi(c)ate Desire
4. On the Many Joys of Sex: Pleasure, Love, and the Gendered Body
5. The Culture of Domination: Sexual Violence, Objectification, and Access
6. Imagery and Imagination: Pornography and Sexual Fantasy in Everyday Life
Conclusion
Appendices
1. Participant Demographic Information
2. Sampling Information
3. Interview Protocol
Notes
References
Index
Over de auteur
Breanne Fahs is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and a practicing clinical psychologist specializing in couples work, sexuality, gender identity, and trauma recovery.
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