Sex, Violence and the Body The Erotics of Wounding [Hardcover]

This unique book examines the relationship between wounding and sexuality, bringing together issues around sexuality, gender, power, violence and representations. Drawing on a range of disciplines including cultural and media studies, sociology and psychology, it explores social practices such as S&M, cosmetic surgery and 'extreme' sports.Introducing the Erotics of Wounding: Sex, Violence and the Body;  J. Hearn and V. Burr Body Modification as Self-mutilation by Proxy;  S. Jeffreys Breast Augmentation Surgery: Carving the Flesh as Female;  T. Kinnunen Physical Bruises, Emotional Scars, and 'Love-bites': Women's Experiences of Men's Violence;  M. Jones and J. Hearn Harming or Healing? The Meanings of Wounding Amongst Sadomasochists who also Self-injure;  A. Ritchie Making the Moves: Masculinities, Bodies, Risk and Death in the 'Extreme' Sport of Rock-climbing;  V. Robinson Transformations of Pain: Erotic Encounters with Crash;  A. McCosker Tortured Heroes: The Story of Ouch! Fan Fiction and Sadomasochism;  J. Alexander 'Oh Spike you're covered in sexy wounds!' The Erotic Significance of Wounding and Torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer;  V. Burr Spectacular Pain: Masculinity, Masochism and Men in the Movies;  T. Edwards Cut Pieces: Self-mutilation in Body Art;   U. Angkj?r J?rgensen The Loathsome, the Rough Type and the Monster: The Violence and Wounding of Media Texts on Rape;  M. Livholts Bibliography

'Sex and violence are each moments of transgression, trespassing across boundaries. The essays in this startling book, so ably collected by Burr and Hearn, attend to the similarities among various erotic wounds. Whether self-inflicted or done by others, criminal or consensual, textual or corporeal, erotic wounding is more than simply a site of skin-deep pleasure and/or pain. Beneath the epidural lie a host of gendered and sexual inequalitiesl³.