Playing on the Edge

Informationen zum Autor Staci Newmahr is an ethnographer. Her work plays with intersections of risk, eroticism, and gender. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Buffalo State College. Klappentext Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedyundergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms anderotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into thesocial space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism fromthe inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participantobservation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories ofcommunity members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space inwhich experiences of "violence" intersect with experiences of the erotic.She shows that SM is a recreational and deeply gendered risk-taking endeavor, through which participants negotiate boundaries between chaos and order. Playing onthe Edge challenges our assumptions about sadomasochism, sexuality, eroticism, andemotional experience, exploring what we mean by intimacy, and how, exactly, weachieve it. Zusammenfassung Constructing intimacy in SM play and beyond Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: People 1. Defiance: Bodies, Minds, and Marginality 2. Geeks and Freaks: Marginal Identity and CommunityPart 2: Play 3. Tipping the Scales: Striving for Imbalance 4. Fringe Benefits: The Rewards of SM Play 5. Badasses, Servants, and Martyrs: Gender PerformancesPart 3: Edges 6. Reconcilable Differences: Pain, Eroticism, and Violence 7. Collaborating the Edge: Feminism and Edgework 8. "What It Is That We Do": Intimate EdgeworkConcluding Notes: Erotic Subjectivity and the Construction of the Field Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Klappentext
Playing on the Edge challenges our assumptions about sadomasochism, sexuality, eroticism, and emotional experience, exploring what we mean by intimacy, and how, exactly, we achieve it.

Zusammenfassung
Constructing intimacy in SM play and beyond

Inhalt
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: People
1. Defiance: Bodies, Minds, and Marginality
2. Geeks and Freaks: Marginal Identity and Community
Part 2: Play
3. Tipping the Scales: Striving for Imbalance
4. Fringe Benefits: The Rewards of SM Play
5. Badasses, Servants, and Martyrs: Gender Performances
Part 3: Edges
6. Reconcilable Differences: Pain, Eroticism, and Violence
7. Collaborating the Edge: Feminism and Edgework
8. "What It Is That We Do": Intimate Edgework
Concluding Notes: Erotic Subjectivity and the Construction of the Field
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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