Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure
By (Author) J. Gwynne
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Pivot
18th January 2013
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Fiction and Related items
Feminism and feminist theory
823.912
Physical Properties
Hardback
126
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
2765g
Description
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.
Reviews
To come.
Author Bio
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).
