166 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Consumer Sexualities explores women’s experiences of shopping in ‘sex shops’ and using sexual commodities in their everyday lives. This enlightening volume shows how women take up sexual consumer ‘technologies of the self’ to work upon and understand themselves as confident and active sexual agents in postfeminist neoliberal culture. In guiding the reader through the historical emergence of... Read more
Introduction: Consumer Sexualities
Chapter One - Sexual Consumption and Liberation in Feminism
Chapter Two - Consumer Sex: Technologies of the Self
Chapter Three - Sexual Spaces: Going Sex Shopping
Chapter Four - The Sexy Body: Wearing Lingerie
Chapter Five - Sexual Objects: Using ‘Sex Toys’
Conclusion: (Sexual) Politics of the Ordinary
Biography
Rachel Wood is a is a research associate in the Department of Psychology, Sociology & Politics at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests centre on sexual consumption, new feminisms, gender and work in the creative / cultural industries, and the production of sexual knowledge.
