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- Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
A candid and provocative critique of women’s sexual liberation in America. 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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. iii-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-29
- CHAPTER TWO: Compulsory Bisexuality?
- pp. 71-114
- CHAPTER THREE: The Rise of Viagra for Women
- pp. 115-148
- CHAPTER FOUR: On the Many Joys of Sex
- pp. 149-183
- CHAPTER FIVE: The Culture of Domination
- pp. 185-224
- CHAPTER SIX: Imagery and Imagination
- pp. 225-274
- Conclusion
- pp. 275-301
- Appendices
- pp. 303-317
- References
- pp. 323-352
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438437835
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
773034254
Pages
376
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No