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Author Newmahr, Staci.

Title Playing on the edge : sadomasochism, risk, and intimacy / Staci Newmahr.

Publication Info. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 228 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index.
Contents Defiance: bodies, minds, and marginality -- Geeks and freaks: marginal identity and community -- Tipping the scales: striving for imbalance -- Fringe benefits: the rewards of SM play -- Badasses, servants, and martyrs: gender performances -- Reconcilable differences: pain, eroticism, and violence -- Collaborating the edge: feminism and edgework -- "What it is that we do": intimate edgework -- Concluding notes: erotic subjectivity and the construction of the field.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Summary Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly.
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Subject Sadomasochism.
Sadomasochism.
Sexual dominance and submission.
Sexual dominance and submission.
Sadomasochists -- Case studies.
Sadomasochists.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Subject SM.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Newmahr, Staci. Playing on the edge. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2011 9780253355973 (DLC) 2010035371 (OCoLC)658117453
ISBN 9780253005120 electronic book
0253005124 electronic book
9780253355973
0253355974
9780253222855
0253222850