Playing on the Edge Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Constructing intimacy in SM play and beyond Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: People 1. Defiance: Bodies, Minds, and Marginality 2. Geeks and Freaks: Marginal Identity and Community Part 2: Play 3. Tipping the Scales: Striving for Imbalance 4. Fringe Benefits: The Rewards of SM Play 5. Badasses, Servants, and Martyrs: Gender Performances Part 3: Edges 6. Reconcilable Differences: Pain, Eroticism, and Violence 7. Collaborating the Edge: Feminism and Edgework 8. "What It Is That We Do": Intimate Edgework Concluding Notes: Erotic Subjectivity and the Construction of the Field Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Staci Newmahr, Newmahr Staci
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 14.02.2011
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780253222855
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22285-5
• Pages: 244
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)