Paradoxical Pleasures
Female Submission in Popular and Erotic Fiction
Will be published approx. on 13. May 2021
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-78453-070-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78453-070-9 (9781784530709)
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Anna Watz is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Linkoping University. She specializes in the work of Angela Carter, Surrealism, Leonora Carrington's writing and feminist theory.