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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Merl StorrPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Berg Publishers Volume: v. 21 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9781859736982ISBN 10: 185973698 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 July 2003 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolved through the marketing and practice of Ann Summers parties. These parties play with the dynamic of useless men and liberated women, offering sex toys as the solution to the power gap; they promote hegemonic masculinity as inevitable whilst ridiculing it at the same time. This book shows that sex toys are symbolically central to current power formations in gender and class relations. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot from this book.' Professor Beverley Skeggs, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester 'Meticulously researched, and written with great verve and style, Latex and Lingerie makes a major contribution to our understanding of heterosexual femininities. It shows how being 'one of the girls' is constructed around manifold exclusions of class, sexuality, 'race' and ethnici 'This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolved through the marketing and practice of Ann Summers parties. These parties play with the dynamic of useless men and liberated women, offering sex toys as the solution to the power gap; they promote hegemonic masculinity as inevitable whilst ridiculing it at the same time. This book shows that sex toys are symbolically central to current power formations in gender and class relations. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot from this book.'Professor Beverley Skeggs, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester'Meticulously researched, and written with great verve and style, Latex and Lingerie makes a major contribution to our understanding of heterosexual femininities. It shows how being 'one of the girls' is constructed around manifold exclusions of class, sexuality, 'race' and ethnici Author InformationMerl Storr Senior Lecturer in Sociology,University of East London Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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