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Sensational Flesh : Race, Power, and Masochism /

In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation-pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine how p...

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Autor principal: Musser, Amber Jamilla (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : theory, flesh, practice
  • Specters of domination : patriarchy, colonialism, and masochism
  • Objectification, complicity, and coldness : the story of O's narratives of femininity and precarity
  • Time, race, and biology : Fanon, Freud, and the labors of race
  • Lacerated breasts : medicine, autonomy, pain.