The Color of Kink - Ariane Cruz

The Color of Kink

Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2016
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-0928-8 (ISBN)
92,25 inkl. MwSt
Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies

How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and contradictory negotiation of pain, pleasure, and power for black women.



Based on personal interviews conducted with pornography performers, producers, and professional dominatrices, visual and textual analysis, and extensive archival research, Ariane Cruz reveals BDSM and pornography as critical sites from which to rethink the formative links between Black female sexuality and violence. She explores how violence becomes not just a vehicle of pleasure but also a mode of accessing and contesting power. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Cruz argues that BDSM is a productive space from which to consider the complexity and diverseness of black women's sexual practice and the mutability of black female sexuality. Illuminating the cross-pollination of black sexuality and BDSM, The Color of Kink makes a unique contribution to the growing scholarship on racialized sexuality.

Ariane Cruz is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Sexual Cultures
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 635 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4798-0928-4 / 1479809284
ISBN-13 978-1-4798-0928-8 / 9781479809288
Zustand Neuware
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