Sexualities and popular culture / Carl B. Holmberg.

An exploration of popular culture and its influence on how we perceive the endless varieties of the sexualized human presentation of sex in everyday life. Holmberg presents a short history of the notion of popular culture and communication giving clear definitions and generous examples that illustra...

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Main Author: Holmberg, Carl Bryan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, ©1998.
Series:Foundations of popular culture ; vol. 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Popular culture
  • Communication and media
  • Popular culture studies
  • Sex, gender, and sexual orientation
  • Over the edge : taboos and sexualized, transgressive interpretive communities
  • Prehistoric and historic texts from around the world
  • Historic texts of beauty : the problematics of art, erotica, and pornography
  • The horror of sex
  • Sexual humors and the flirtatious alchemy of gaiety and gravity
  • After the beat : popular music
  • Gesture, body image, and the fashion of sex toys.