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Consumer Sexualities - Women and Sex Shopping (Paperback)
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Consumer Sexualities - Women and Sex Shopping (Paperback)
Series: Sexualities in Society
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Consumer Sexualities explores women's experiences of shopping in
'sex shops' and using sexual commodities in their everyday lives.
This enlightening volume shows how women take up sexual consumer
'technologies of the self' to work upon and understand themselves
as confident and active sexual agents in postfeminist neoliberal
culture. In guiding the reader through the historical emergence of
sexual commodities 'for women' in feminism and postfeminism, Wood
points to the normalisation and regulation of sexual practices and
identities in and through consumption. Indeed, women's accounts
show the work involved in constructing the 'right' - knowledgeable,
tasteful, and confident - orientation to sexual consumption and, by
extension, in becoming an intelligibly 'good' sexual person. At the
same time, the author draws upon de Certeau to show how the
ordinary contexts in which sexual commodities are used can lead to
unpredictable moments of adaptation, discomfort, playfulness, and
resistance. A rich analysis of women's everyday strategies of
'making do' with the kinds of femininity and female sexuality that
sex shop culture represents, Consumer Sexualities will appeal to
scholars of sociology, cultural studies and gender studies with
interests in gender, sexuality, sex, and consumption.
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