Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of DesireFrom advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the 'sexualization' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in post-war society. Striptease Culture is divided in to three sections: * Part one - traces the development of pornography, following its movement from elite to mass culture and the contemporary fascination with 'porno-chic' |
Contents
SEX MATTERS | 1 |
FROM WILDE TO WILD The end of patriarchy or is it all just history repeating? | 15 |
Cultural sexualisation from pornosphere to public sphere | 35 |
THE AMAZING EXPANDING PORNOSPHERE | 37 |
PORNOCHIC OR THE PORNOGRAPHICATION OF THE MAINSTREAM | 61 |
STRIPTEASE CULTURE The sexualization of the public sphere | 88 |
Sexual representation | 109 |
WOMEN KNOW YOUR LIMITS | 113 |
The aesthetics of sexual transgression | 163 |
MEN SEX AND TRANSGRESSION | 167 |
QUEER CULTURE | 179 |
BAD GIRLS Sexual transgression as feminist strategy | 191 |
CONCLUSIONS | 205 |
NOTES | 208 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 228 |
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Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire Brian McNair No preview available - 2002 |