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Latex and Lingerie: Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties de Merl Storr

Latex and Lingerie: Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties: Materializing Culture

Autor Merl Storr
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2003
Sexy, hedonistic, hilarious - Ann Summers parties are the ultimate girls' night in. Promising the perfect antidote to the toils of everyday life - sexual pleasure - they are the 'naughty but nice' version of the classic Tupperware® party. Ann Summers parties are incredibly popular, with around 4000 parties held in Britain every week. The basis is simple: to provide an all-female environment where women can buy sexy lingerie, erotic fashion, sex toys and other sex-related products. In many respects these parties enable women to transgress social taboos in the comfort of their own homes. But they are also a subtle means of constructing and enforcing heterosexual femininity. This book investigates what really goes on at these 'special' homosocial gatherings, where heterosexual women drink, laugh, shop, play party games and talk about sex. Storr develops a new analysis of the ways heterosexual women identify with and against each other - and of what this tells us about gender, sexuality and consumption in contemporary society. Drawing on both participant observation and in-depth interviews with party organizers, this fascinating and fun book is an indispensable guide to the politics of 'post-feminist' culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781859736982
ISBN-10: 185973698X
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 15 b&w illustrations, maps, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Berg Publishers
Seria Materializing Culture

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Also available in hardback, 9781859736937 £50.00 (July, 2003)

Notă biografică

Merl Storr Senior Lecturer in Sociology,University of East London

Cuprins

ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgements1 Introducing Ann SummersThe Ann Summers Party PlanAnn Summers @ a typical party plan?Researching Ann SummersLiquorice allsorts'The No 1 Fun Company'Personality, skill and emotional labour'Young mums'Ann Summers as post-feminist funHidden depthsAbout this book2 'The Ultimate Girls' Night In'Conceptualising HomosocialityMale homosocialityFemale homosocialityAnn Summers and Female HomosocialityHelping women to serve the interests of menBeing one of the girlsLesbophobiaSummary and Conclusion3 Objects of DesireAnn Summers Parties for Men?She Likes MenFeeling sexyMen in uniform @ 'hello boys!''All that's Missing in the Man!'The penis and the phallusPass my penisFeel it, believe it!Summary and Conclusion4 Feminine Bodies, Feminine PleasuresThe Heterosexual Female Erogenous Body at Ann Summers PartiesTechnique and interior zonesTechnique and exterior zonesErogenous functionsThe Female Homosocial Body at Ann Summers PartiesThe homosocial body's oral pleasuresThe homosocial body's vocal pleasuresThe homosocial body's tactile pleasuresThe homosocial body's visual pleasuresSummary and Conclusion5 Classy LingeriePeeling the LemonHomosocial UnderwearThe girls go shoppingLuxury/utilitySleaze/respectabilityEroticism/domesticitySummary and Conclusion6 ConclusionReferencesIndex

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'This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolved through the marketing and practice of Ann Summers parties. These parties play with the dynamic of useless men and liberated women, offering sex toys as the solution to the power gap; they promote hegemonic masculinity as inevitable whilst ridiculing it at the same time. This book shows that sex toys are symbolically central to current power formations in gender and class relations. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot from this book.'Professor Beverley Skeggs, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester'Meticulously researched, and written with great verve and style, Latex and Lingerie makes a major contribution to our understanding of heterosexual femininities. It shows how being 'one of the girls' is constructed around manifold exclusions of class, sexuality, 'race' and ethnici

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Sexy, hedonistic and hilarious - Ann Summers parties are the ultimate girls' night in. This book investigates what really goes on at these 'special' homosocial gatherings, where heterosexual women drink, laugh, shop, play party games and talk about sex. It analysis of the ways heterosexual women identify with and against each other.