Mainstreaming sex : the sexualization of Western culture /: the sexualization of Western culture. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Feona Attwood.
• Other Names: Attwood, Feona
• Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Sexualization of Culture -- Feona Attwood; PART I. PORNOGRAPHY AND PORNOGRAPHICATION; 1. The New Pornographies: Representation or Reality? -- Simon Hardy; 2. Pleasing Intensities: Masochism and Affective Pleasure in Porn Short Fictions -- Clarissa Smith; 3. 'Choke on it, Bitch!': Porn Studies, Extreme Gonzo and the mainstream of Hardcore -- Stephen Maddison; 4. From Porn Chic to Porn Fear: The Return of the Repressed? -- Brian McNair; PART 2. SEXUALIZATION AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA. 5. The Mainstream of Masturbation: Autoeroticism and Consumer Capitalism -- Greg Tuck6. Supersexualize Me!: Advertising and 'Midriffs' -- Rosalind Gill; 7. Whatever Happened to Cathy and Claire?: Sex, Advice and the Role of the Agony Aunt -- Petra Boynton; PART 3. STRIPTEASE CULTURE; 8. Too Much Too Young?: Young People, Sexual Media and Learning -- Sara Bragg and David Buckingham; 9. Some Texts Do It Better: Women, Sexually Explicit Texts and the Everyday -- Dana Wilson-Kovacs; 10. Keeping Fit in Six Inch Heels: The Mainstreaming of Pole Dancing -- Samantha Holland and Feona Attwood. 11. Bust-ing the Third Wave: Barbies, Blowjobs and Girlie Feminism -- Rebecca MunfordFilm and TV Guide; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 306.7; Sex -- Social aspects -- Western countries; Social change -- Western countries; Sex customs -- Western countries; Sex -- Public opinion; Mass media and sex; Sex in mass media; Pornography -- Social aspects; Sex (Psychology); Mass media and sex; Pornography -- Social aspects; Sex customs; Sex in mass media; Sex (Psychology); Sex -- Public opinion; Sex -- Social aspects; Social change; Western countries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857731722; 0857731726
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.