Dominatrix - Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon

Presents an analysis of how gender, power, sexuality, and hierarchy shape all of our social experiences. This book draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with professional dominatrices in New York City and San Francisco to offer a portrait of these unusual specialists, their work, and their clients.

About the author

Danielle J. Lindemann is a postdoctoral research scholar at Vanderbilt University. She lives with her husband in New York - a city she loves masochistically.

Summary

Presents an analysis of how gender, power, sexuality, and hierarchy shape all of our social experiences. This book draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with professional dominatrices in New York City and San Francisco to offer a portrait of these unusual specialists, their work, and their clients.

Product details

• Authors: Danielle J. Lindemann, LINDEMANN DANIELLE J, Lindemann Danielle J.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2012
• EAN: 9780226482569
• ISBN: 978-0-226-48256-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality