Queer BDSM intimacies : critical consent and pushing boundaries / Robin Bauer.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bauer, Robin, 1973- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Sadomasochism.
Gay people > Sexual behavior.
Physical Description:vii, 289 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The culture of dyke + queer BDSM
  • Renegotiating dyke + queer BDSM
  • Negotiating critical consent
  • Exploring exuberant intimacies
  • Exploring and pushing boundaries
  • Exploring intimate power dynamics
  • Exploring intimate difference through gender
  • The sexual politics of exuberant intimacy
  • Conclusion.