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This booklet analyses the impression of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our figuring out of intimacy and feminine sexuality. it's a vast severe survey of a up to date publishing phenomenon – the female-authored erotic memoir – and positions the texts less than research as advanced and contradictory expressions of renowned feminism.
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As a liberated woman, it is the only way I can go there and retain my dignity. Turned over, ass in the air, I have little choice but to succumb and lose my head. ”104 This betrayal of a history of feminist struggle, both first and secondwave, and valorisation of sexual essentialism is distinctly postfeminist. Yvonne Tasker has highlighted postfeminism’s “suppressed paradox of a simultaneous celebration of female empowerment and more traditional norms of femininity”,105 with reactionary gender regimes masked by a cosmetic subversion of traditional femininity.
1. , 2. , 9. , 41. Abby Lee, Girl with a One Track Mind: Confessions of the Seductress Next Door (London: Ebury Press, 2006), 105. , 104–105. Catherine Townsend, Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress (London: John Murray, 2007), 3. , 86. 1057/9781137326546 Agency 35 Robert Jensen, Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007), 158. Townsend, Sleeping Around, 57–58. Walter, The New Feminism, 120. Lee, Girl with a One Track Mind, vii.
109 She resolutely positions women as desiring subordination, while simultaneously positioning herself as a liberated woman. Along with Patrick Califia, the author can be identified as one among a minority of contemporary feminists who affirm sexual subordination. 110 Yet, he also makes the astute point that subordination and masochism in the sexual realm does not necessarily represent power relations in the non-sexual sphere, either private or political: “A sexual masochist probably doesn’t want to be raped, battered, discriminated against in her job, or kept down by the system.
