Format:
Book
Title:
Techniques of pleasure : BDSM and the circuits of sexuality / Margot Weiss.
Author:
Weiss, Margot Danielle, 1973-
Call Number:
C306.775097 W438te 2011
Publisher, Date:
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Description:
xv, 315 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Sadomasochism -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Bondage (Sexual behavior) -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Sex -- Social aspects.
Sex -- Political aspects.
Contents:
Setting the scene : SM communities in the San Francisco Bay area -- Becoming a practitioner : self-mastery, social control, and the biopolitics of SM -- The toy bag : exchange economies and the body at play -- Beyond vanilla : public politics and private selves -- Sex play and social power : reading the effective circuit.
ISBN:
9780822351450 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822351455 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822351597 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822351595 (pbk. : alk. paper)