Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure

by J. Gwynne

Overview

This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon – the female-authored erotic memoir – and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137326539
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/18/2013
Series:	Palgrave Pivot
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Joel Gwynne is Assistant Professor of English at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He is the author of The Secular Visionaries: Aestheticism and New Zealand Short Fiction in the Twentieth Century (2010) and is the co-editor of two other books: Sexuality and Contemporary Literature (2012) and Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Agency 2. Intimacy 3. Pornography 4. Transgression Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

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