Overview

Erotic texts written by and for women play a significant role in negotiating relations of gender, sexuality and kinship, and in shaping popular ideas about romance and the erotic. Examining the ""mainstreaming"" of women's erotica following the runaway success of Fifty Shades of Grey, this collection of new essays focuses on the publication and reception of women's popular erotic fiction across various genres and cultural contexts. The contributors draw connections between feminist and cultural studies scholarship on visual pornography and critical research on popular romance fiction. Essays explore a range of writing: popular erotic romance novels; ""feminist porn""; male/male and menage fiction; lesbian romance; sex blogs; new Chinese erotica; BDSM novels; and slash fiction. Topics discussed include the ideological and critical aspects of popular texts, audiences and fan communities, the disciplinary function of popular speech about women's erotic fiction, and the technological and social shifts which have facilitated women's access to new forms of erotic material.

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Author:   Kristen Phillips
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780786495849

ISBN 10:   0786495847
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 September 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Shattering Releases (Kristen Phillips) Part 1: Originating the Erotic From Black Lace to Shades of Grey: The Interpellation of the “Female Subject” into Erotic Discourse (Simon Hardy) Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance (Katherine E. Morrissey) Refiguring Penetration in Women’s Erotic Fiction (Amalia Ziv) Erotic Pleasure and Postsocialist Female Sexuality: Contemporary Female “Body Writing” in China (Eva Chen) Part 2: Interrogating the Erotic Good Vibrations: Shaken Subjects and the Disintegrative Romance Heroine (Naomi Booth) On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity (Tanya Serisier) Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica (Carole ­Veldman-Genz) Permissible Transgressions: Feminized ­Same-Sex Practice as ­Middle-Class Fantasy (Jude Elund) Part 3: Uses of the Erotic The Politics of Slash on the High Seas: Colonial Romance and Revolutionary Solidarity in Pirates Fan Fiction (Anne Kustritz) Male Homoerotic Fiction and Women’s Sexual Subjectivities: Yaoi and BL Fans in Indonesia and the Philippines (Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin) Selling Authentic Sex: Working Through Identity in Belle de Jour’s The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl (Victoria Ong) Sexing Education: Erotica in the Urban Classroom (Alyssa D. Niccolini) Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Kristen Phillips is a lecturer in the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. Her research interests include law, gender, sexuality, the politics of border and migration, kinship, post-feminism and popular erotic texts.

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