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This unique book examines the relationship between wounding and sexuality, bringing together issues around sexuality, gender, power, violence and representations. Drawing on a range of disciplines including cultural and media studies, sociology and psychology, it explores social practices such as S&M, cosmetic surgery and 'extreme' sports.
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Reviews
'Sex and violence are each moments of transgression, trespassing across boundaries. The essays in this startling book, so ably collected by Burr and Hearn, attend to the similarities among various erotic wounds. Whether self-inflicted or done by others, criminal or consensual, textual or corporeal, erotic wounding is more than simply a site of skin-deep pleasure and/or pain. Beneath the epidural lie a host of gendered and sexual inequalities that many of these authors make viscerally visible.' - Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook, US and author of The Gender of Desire
'A fascinating collection of readings on the interweaving of sexuality and violence in the 'erotics of wounding' men's and women's bodies. Surprises abound the collection encompasses unexpected and controversial viewpoints, theories of the body, sexuality, and the social nature of violence, and deconstruction of popular culture. You'll want to read every chapter.' - Judith Lorber, Professor Emerita, Graduate School and Brooklyn College, CUNY, US; co-author of Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives and author of Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change.
'This is a fascinating, challenging and timely book, drawing together an impressive list of international contributors. Exploring a wide range of issues around the relation between sex, violence and the body, it makes a significant contribution to the literature and will, I have no doubt, appeal to a wide readership across a range of disciplines. What is particularly original is approaching the sex-violence-body nexus through a specific focus on the 'erotics of wounding' and, in each of the subject areas addressed across the 12 chapters, the book clearly sets out the key conceptual issues, debates and challenges in this frequently misunderstood area. This is an important, insightful and challenging book.' - Professor Richard Collier, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
JENNY ALEXANDER is working as an Investigative Researcher at the Advertising Standards Authority in London, UK
VIV BURR is Reader in Psychology, University of Huddersfield, UK
TIM EDWARDS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK
JEFF HEARN is Professor, University of Huddersfield, UK; Linköping University, Sweden; and Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
SHEILA JEFFREYS is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia
MICHELLE JONES is employed in practice-based evaluation positions within the area of men's violence
ULLA ANGKJÆR JØRGENSEN is Associate Professor of Art History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norwary
TAINA KINNUNEN works as a University Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland
MONA LIVHOLTS is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Work, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
ANTHONY MCCOSKER is Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia
ANI RITCHIE is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Southampton Solent University, UK
VICTORIA ROBINSON is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Sheffield, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sex, Violence and the Body
Book Subtitle: The Erotics of Wounding
Editors: Viv Burr, Jeff Hearn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228399
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-54934-0Published: 30 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36182-3Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-22839-9Published: 30 October 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 242
Topics: Gender Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general, Popular Science in Psychology, Sexual Behavior