Weiss Techniques of Pleasure

BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9491-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

In this lively ethnography, Weiss studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Weiss finds that BDSM practice is not as transgressive as the participants imagine, nor is it simply reinforcing of older forms of social domination. Instead she shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiss, Margot

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Terminology vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction. Toward a Performative Materialism 1

1. Setting the Scene: SM Communities in the San Francisco Bay Area 34

2. Becoming a Practitioner: Self-Mastery, Social Control, and the Biopolitics of SM 61

3. The Toy Bag: Exchange Economies and the Body at Play 101

4. Beyond Vanilla: Public Politics and Private Selves 143

5. Sex Play and Social Power: Reading the Effective Circuit 187

Appendix. Interviewee Vignettes 233

Notes 241

References 269

Index 291

Über Autor(innen)

Margot Weiss is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University.