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Techniques of pleasure : BDSM and the circuits of sexuality / Margot Weiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiss, Margot Danielle, 1973-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sadomasochism--California--San Francisco Bay Area.
- Sadomasochism.
- Bondage (Sexual behavior)--California--San Francisco Bay Area.
- Bondage (Sexual behavior).
- Sex--Social aspects.
- Sex.
- Sex--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Setting the scene : SM communities in the San Francisco Bay area
- Becoming a practitioner : self-mastery, social control, and the biopolitics of SM
- The toy bag : exchange economies and the body at play
- Beyond vanilla : public politics and private selves
- Sex play and social power : reading the effective circuit.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record
- ISBN:
- 9786613373106
- 9781283373104
- 1283373106
- 9780822394914
- 082239491X
- OCLC:
- 770876072
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