Cover Image

BDSM in American science fiction and fantasy [electronic resource] / Lewis Call.

Show other versions (1)

This is a history of the decades-long love affair between a powerful alternative sexuality called BDSM (bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism) and an innovative narrative genre called science fiction and fantasy (SF & F). The book shows how SF & F provides easy access to...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Call, Lewis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Subjects:
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
Fantasy literature, American > History and criticism.
Bondage (Sexual behavior) in literature.
Sadomasochism in literature.
Fantasy literature, American.
Science fiction, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Submitting to a loving mistress: BDSM in William Moulton Marston's Wonder Woman comics
  • Structures of desire: BDSM in the science fiction and fantasy of Samuel R. Delany
  • "This wondrous death": power, sex and death in the science fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.
  • Death, sex and the cylon: Battlestar Galactica's existential kink theory
  • "Sounds like kinky business to me": BDSM on Buffy and Angel
  • "It's about trust": slavery and ethics in the dollhouse.

Similar Items