Sex, violence and the body [electronic resource] : the erotics of wounding / edited by Viv Burr, Jeff Hearn.
What is erotic about certain kinds of wounding or injury? Is a 'love bite' an injury or cosmetic surgery mutilation? How should we understand the erotic power of films such as David Cronenberg's Crash and the appeal of images of the tortured male body? And how might relations between...
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing the erotics of wounding : sex, violence and the body / Jeff Hearn and Viv Burr
- Body modification as self-mutilation by proxy / Sheila Jeffreys
- Breast augmentation surgery : carving the flesh as female / Taina Kinnunen
- Physical bruises, emotional scars, and love-bites : women's experiences of men's violence / Michelle Jones and Jeff Hearn
- Harming or healing? : the meanings of wounding amongst sadomasochists who also self-injure / Ani Ritchie
- Making the moves : masculinities, bodies, risk, and death in the extreme sport of rock-climbing / Victoria Robinson
- Transformations of pain : erotic encounters with Crash / Anthony McCosker
- Tortured heroes : the story of ouch fan fiction and sadomasochism / Jenny Alexander
- "Oh Spike, you're covered in sexy wounds!" : the erotic significance of wounding and torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Viv Burr
- Spectacular pain : masculinity, masochism and men in the movies / Tim Edwards
- Cut pieces : self-mutilation in body art / Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen
- The loathsome, the rough type, and the monster : the violence and wounding of media texts on rape / Mona Livholts.