Dominatrix Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
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Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client-and between the dominant and the submissive.
In Dominatrix, Danielle Lindemann draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews with professional dominatrices in New York City and San Francisco to offer a sophisticated portrait of these unusual professionals, their work, and their clients. Prior research on sex work has focused primarily on prostitutes and most studies of BDSM absorb pro-domme/client relationships without exploring what makes them unique. Lindemann satisfies our curiosity about these paid encounters, shining a light on one of the most secretive and least understood of personal relationships and unthreading a heretofore unexamined patch of our social tapestry. Upending the idea that these erotic laborers engage in simple exchanges and revealing the therapeutic and analytic nature of their work, Lindemann makes a major contribution to cultural studies, anthropology, and queer studies with her analysis of how gender, power, sexuality, and hierarchy shape all of our social experiences.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226482569 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 16 Oct 2012 |
DEWEY: | 306.775 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | x, 239 |
Weight: | 454g |
Height: | 24mm |
Width: | 15mm |
Spine width: | 2mm |