Performing Sex
eBook - ePub

Performing Sex

The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Performing Sex

The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives

About this book

Silver Medalist, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Issues category
Honorable Mention, 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues Category Although conventional wisdom holds that women in the United States today are more sexually liberated than ever before, a number of startling statistics call into question this perceived victory: over half of all women report having faked orgasms; 45 percent of women find rape fantasies erotic; a growing number of women perform same-sex eroticism for the viewing benefit of men; and recent clinical studies label 40 percent of women as "sexually dysfunctional." Caught between postsexual revolution celebrations of progress and alarmingly regressive new modes of disempowerment, the forty women interviewed in Performing Sex offer a candid and provocative portrait of "liberated" sex in America. Through this nuanced and complex study, Breanne Fahs demonstrates that despite the constant cooptation of the terms of sexual freedom, women's sexual subjectivitiesā€”and the ways they continually grapple with shifting definitions of liberationā€”represent provocative spaces for critical inquiry and personal discovery, ultimately generating novel ways of imagining and reimagining power, pleasure, and resistance.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. CHAPTER 1. Getting, Giving, Faking, Having: Orgasm and the Performance of Pleasure
  4. CHAPTER 2. Compulsory Bisexuality? The Challenges of Modern Sexual Fluidity
  5. CHAPTER 3. The Rise of Viagra for Women: How Sexual Pharmaceuticals Medi(c)ate Desire
  6. CHAPTER 4. On the Many Joys of Sex: Pleasure, Love, and the Gendered Body
  7. CHAPTER 5. The Culture of Domination: Sexual Violence, Objectification, and Access
  8. CHAPTER 6. Imagery and Imagination: Pornography and Sexual Fantasy in Everyday Life
  9. Conclusion
  10. Appendices
  11. Notes
  12. References