Performing sex : the making and unmaking of women's erotic lives / Breanne Fahs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fahs, Breanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Sexual behavior.

Women.

Sex (Psychology).

Women and erotica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York, Albany, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Silver Medalist, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Issues categoryHonorable Mention, 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues CategoryAlthough 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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Getting, Giving, Faking, Having

Compulsory Bisexua lity?

The Rise of Viagra for Women

On the Many Joys of Sex

The Culture of Domination

Imagery and Imagination

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-352) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438437835

1438437838

9781441699060

1441699066

OCLC:

773034254