Relevant: subcultures and sm/leather/fetish
| Title: | ABC van perversies | |
| Author | Gert Hekma. | |
| Impressum | Amsterdam : Meulenhoff. 2009 - 303 p.: ill. | |
| ISBN | 9029084383 | |
| Annotation | Bibliogr.: p. 298-303. - Recensie op Ihlia-site. | |
| Summary | 'ABC van perversies' brengt op enthousiasmerende wijze seksuele fantasieën en voorkeuren aan het voetlicht: van modderbaden tot erotografomanie, van exhibitionisme tot voorliefde voor satijn, ballon- en dingseks. Met liefde heeft het allemaal niets te maken, met spelen des te meer. | |
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Homodok: cat. (hekma/abc) b boven
Anna Blaman Huis: Bib L5 Hekm |
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| Title: | Black lesbian gender and sexual culture : celebration and resistance | |
| Author | Bianca D. M. Wilson. | |
| Impressum | Culture, Health and Sexuality, 11 (2009) 3 (apr), p. 297-313. | |
| Summary | Lesbian gender expression is a persistent theme in research and writing about lesbian culture. Yet little empirical research has examined the ways lesbian gender functions within the sexual culture of lesbian communities, particularly among lesbians of colour. This study was aimed at documenting and assessing the functions of lesbian gender among African American lesbians. Particular attention was paid to identifying core characteristics of sexual discourses, such as evidence of dominant and resistant sexual scripts and contradictions between messages about sex. This study took the form of a rapid ethnography of an African American lesbian community in the USA using focus groups, individual community leader interviews and participant observations at a weekly open mic event. Findings document how lesbian gender roles translated into distinct sexual roles and expectations that appear to both parallel and radically reject heterosexual norms for sex. The deep roots of the social pressure to date within these roles were also evident within observations at the open microphone events. While data highlighted the central role that lesbian gender roles play in this community, analyses also revealed a strong resistance to the dominance of this sexual cultural system. | |
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| Title: | Nestled into Niches : Prefigurative Communities on Lesbian Land | |
| Author | Sine Anahita. | |
| Impressum | Journal of Homosexuality, 56 (2009) 6 (aug), p. 719-737. | |
| Summary | The contemporary U.S. lesbian land movement, known more recently as the landdyke movement, is analyzed. I argue that landdyke activists are creating a network of communities that are prefigurative and ecofeminist. Based on interviews with 32 activists in the movement, the article describes four aspects of landdyke ecofeminist praxis: developing an emotional and spiritual connection to land; facilitating personal liberation and transformation; living important values through everyday acts; and assurance of bodily freedoms that are largely unavailable outside of the movement. These lived aspects of the landdyke movement prefigure an ecofeminist future. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/haworth-journals.asp ] | |
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| Title: | Perverting Visual Pleasure: Representing Sadomasochism | |
| Author | Eleanor Wilkinson. | |
| Impressum | Sexualities, 12 (2009) 2 (apr), p. 181-198. | |
| Summary | In this article I examine representations of sadomasochism in visual culture. Increasingly sadomasochistic imagery is becoming prominent and widespread in popular culture. I will ask which forms of sadomasochism are permitted and which are excluded or marginalized. The changing media regimes of visual representation will be addressed, arguing that cyberspace may provide a public forum for sadomasochists to challenge dominant stereotypical representations. Finally I will examine the impact of the current UK legislation to prosecute the viewers of `extreme' pornographic material. This legislation reveals that certain intimate images are still denied the right to exist in visual culture. | |
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