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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459006103321

Autore

Newmahr Staci

Titolo

Playing on the edge [[electronic resource] ] : sadomasochism, risk, and intimacy / / Staci Newmahr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-282-24193-1

9786613813053

0-253-00512-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

306.77/5

306.775

Soggetti

Sadomasochism

Sexual dominance and submission

Sadomasochists

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Defiance: bodies, minds, and marginality -- Geeks and freaks: marginal identity and community -- Tipping the scales: striving for imbalance -- Fringe benefits: the rewards of SM play -- Badasses, servants, and martyrs: gender performances -- Reconcilable differences: pain, eroticism, and violence -- Collaborating the edge: feminism and edgework -- "What it is that we do": intimate edgework.

Sommario/riassunto

Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space in which experiences of ""violence"" interse