Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism - The Politics of Pleasure

Informationen zum Autor Joel Gwynne is Assistant Professor of English at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He is the author of The Secular Visionaries: Aestheticism and New Zealand Short Fiction in the Twentieth Century (2010) and is the co-editor of two other books: Sexuality and Contemporary Literature (2012) and Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (2013). Klappentext This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon - the female-authored erotic memoir - and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism. Zusammenfassung This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon – the female-authored erotic memoir – and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Agency 2. Intimacy 3. Pornography 4. Transgression Conclusion

List of contents

Introduction 1. Agency 2. Intimacy 3. Pornography 4. Transgression Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: J Gwynne, J. Gwynne, Joel Gwynne, Gwynne Joel
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2013
• EAN: 9781137326539
• ISBN: 978-1-137-32653-9
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; C, Gender Studies, Literature, Feminism, Fiction, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literature, general, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Fiction and Related items, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, complex;female sex;feminism;politics;pornography