Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, And Masochism (Sexual Cultures, 43)

The author uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts. Musser employs masochism as a tool for probing relationships between power and subjectivity. Engaging with a range of debates about lesbian S&M, racialization, femininity, and disability, as well as key texts such as Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, Pauline R?ge's The Story of O, and Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, Musser renders legible the complex ways that masochism has been taken up by queer, feminist, and critical race theories. Furthering queer theory's investment in affect and materiality, she proposes "sensation" as an analytical tool for illustrating what it feels like to be embedded in structures of domination such as patriarchy, colonialism, and racism and what it means to embody femininity, blackness, and pain. 9781479832491 1479832499 268 Social Science MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6C8UCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Amber Jamilla Musser
• • Publisher: Nyu Press
• • Publication Date: Sep 05, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 272 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1479832499
• • ISBN-13: 9781479832491