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Performing Sex : The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives by Fahs, Breanne. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A candid and provocative critique of women’s sexual liberation in America. 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 subjectivities—and the ways they continually grapple with shifting definitions of liberation—represent provocative spaces for critical inquiry and personal discovery, ultimately generating novel ways of imagining and reimagining power, pleasure, and resistance. “Fahs provides s

Who reads Performing Sex : The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives?

Author

Fahs, Breanne.

Publisher

State University of New York, Albany

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438437835

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Erotica, Science, Psychology