Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of masculinities and femininities. Engaging with both science and popular culture it examines the meanings given to orgasmic bodies in contemporary heterosex.
Autorentext
Hannah Frith teaches critical psychology at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research examines interrelationships between identity, embodiment and sexuality, including negotiating sexual refusals, clothed identities, a changed appearance, the mediation of dying, and makeover television. She co-edited Critical bodies: Representations, identities and practices of weight and body management (Palgrave Macmillan).
Inhalt
1. What Is An Orgasm... And Why Does It Matter?
2. The Orgasmic Imperative
3. Complicated Women, Straightforward Men
4. Coming Together: The Timing Of Orgasm
5. Orgasmic Labour: Training The Body For Orgasmic Success
6. Performing Orgasm: Blurring The 'Real' And The 'Fake'
7. Embodying Orgasmic Sensation
8. The Climax: Conclusions And Reflections
Endnotes
Titel
Orgasmic Bodies
Untertitel
The Orgasm in Contemporary Western Culture
Autor
EAN
9781137304377
ISBN
978-1-137-30437-7
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
30.06.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
0.9 MB
Anzahl Seiten
192
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch
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