Queer BDSM intimacies : critical consent and pushing boundaries / by Robin Bauer.
| Author/creator | Bauer, Robin, 1973- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
| Copyright Date | ©2014 |
| Description | 1 online resource (vii, 289 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Culture of Dyke+Queer BDSM -- 3. Renegotiating Dyke+Queer BDSM -- 4. Negotiating Critical Consent -- 5. Exploring Exuberant Intimacies -- 6. Exploring and Pushing Boundaries -- 7. Exploring Intimate Power Dynamics -- 8. Exploring Intimate Difference Through Gender -- 9. The Sexual Politics of Exuberant Intimacy -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | This is the first book-length empirical study of lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practices, identities, relationships and communities. Based on interviews and participant observation, "Queer BDSM Intimacies" explores various women's and queer BDSM spaces and networks in the USA and Western Europe over a period of five years. While research on alternative forms of sexuality, genders and relationships has been booming recently, the particular experiences and perspectives of this group have yet to receive sufficient attention. Robin Oke Bauer shows that queer BDSM practitioners have created unique social spaces through critical consent-making processes. These spaces are suited to explore not only their own identities beyond common binary categorizations of man/woman and homo/heterosexual, but to create new forms of living, gender, sexuality, intimacy and collectivity. The transgressive nature of BDSM allows them to push their own and social boundaries, engaging with social difference and power dynamics, appropriating them for their own pleasures. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Bauer, Robin, 1973- Queer BDSM intimacies. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 9781137435019 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781137435026 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 113743502X (electronic bk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1057/9781137435026 |
| Stock number | 765328 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com |