Sex, violence and the body : the erotics of wounding /
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing the erotics of wounding : sex, violence and the body / Jeff Hearn and Viv Burr
- Body modification as self-mutilation by proxy / Sheila Jeffreys
- Breast augmentation surgery : carving the flesh as female / Taina Kinnunen
- Physical bruises, emotional scars, and love-bites : women's experiences of men's violence / Michelle Jones and Jeff Hearn
- Harming or healing? : the meanings of wounding amongst sadomasochists who also self-injure / Ani Ritchie
- Making the moves : masculinities, bodies, risk, and death in the extreme sport of rock-climbing / Victoria Robinson
- Transformations of pain : erotic encounters with Crash / Anthony McCosker
- Tortured heroes : the story of ouch fan fiction and sadomasochism / Jenny Alexander
- "Oh Spike, you're covered in sexy wounds!" : the erotic significance of wounding and torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Viv Burr
- Spectacular pain : masculinity, masochism and men in the movies / Tim Edwards
- Cut pieces : self-mutilation in body art / Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen
- The loathsome, the rough type, and the monster : the violence and wounding of media texts on rape / Mona Livholts.