In recent bestselling novels such as E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Vina Jackson's Eighty Days series, female desire is presented as submissive and masochistic. By placing these books in a broader cultural frame however, Anna Watz exposes how female submission has been disseminated as a consumer product.
Navigating the minefield of women's pleasure in popular culture, she frames the female masochist in relation to the backlash against feminism and the resurgence of sexism in post-feminist culture. Watz also describes how renewed debates about sex and sexuality have tended towards 'sex negative' and 'sex positive' attitudes, and the impact that neo-liberalism and consumerism in the 2010s, along with feminism's recent popular revival has had on them.
| ISBN: | 9781784530709 |
| Publication date: | 13th May 2021 |
| Author: | Anna Watz |
| Publisher: | I.B. Tauris |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Library of Gender and Popular Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Popular culture Gender studies: women and girls |
In recent bestselling novels such as E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Vina Jackson's Eighty Days series, female desire is presented as submissive and masochistic.
Paradoxical Pleasures features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Popular culture, Gender studies: women and girls
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Paradoxical Pleasures was written by Anna Watz and published by I.B. Tauris
Paradoxical Pleasures has 256 pages
Yes it is part of Library of Gender and Popular Culture series