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Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism - The Politics of Pleasure (Hardcover, New)
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Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism - The Politics of Pleasure (Hardcover, New)
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While books such as Belle de Jour's The Intimate Adventures of a
London Call Girl and Catherine Millet's The Sexual Life of
Catherine M. captured the imagination of the reading public and
marked the contemporary erotic memoir as a publishing phenomenon,
the genre has received comparatively scarce scholarly attention.
Through examining the cultural dominance of the figure of the
'phallic girl' (or 'ladette') in the early 21st century, this
pioneering study explores the conflict that arises when the
female-authored erotic memoir - a genre that holds enormous
feminist potential - is co-opted by postfeminist cultural praxis.
By analyzing the impact of the mainstreaming of pornography and the
emergence of new communication technologies on conceptualizations
of intimacy, agency and feminine sexual subjectivities, Erotic
Memoirs and Postfeminism presents a broad critical survey of the
genre and positions contemporary women's erotic memoirs as
contradictory spaces in which female sexual autonomy is both
actively celebrated and perniciously disavowed. The book also
offers the first sustained critical analysis of a range of
contemporary memoirs, including Abby Lee's Girl with a One Track
Mind, Melissa P.'s One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed and
Tracy Quan's Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, amongst others.
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