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By Amber Jamilla Musser

In daily language, masochism is mostly understood because the wish to abdicate keep an eye on in trade for sensation—pleasure, soreness, or a mix thereof. but at its middle, masochism is a website the place energy, our bodies, and society come jointly. Sensational Flesh makes use of masochism as a lens to check how energy buildings race, gender, and embodiment in numerous contexts.

 

Drawing on wealthy and sundry sources—from nineteenth century sexology, psychoanalysis, and demanding conception to literary texts and function art—Amber Jamilla Musser employs masochism as a robust diagnostic software for probing relationships among energy and subjectivity. attractive with a variety of debates approximately lesbian S&M, racialization, femininity, and incapacity, in addition to key texts corresponding to Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs, Pauline Réage’s The tale of O, and Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, Musser renders legible the complicated ways in which masochism has been taken up via queer, feminist, and important race theories. Furthering queer theory’s funding in have an effect on and materiality, she proposes “sensation” as an analytical software for illustrating what it seems like to be embedded in constructions of domination corresponding to patriarchy, colonialism, and racism and what it skill to embrace femininity, blackness, and soreness. Sensational Flesh is eventually concerning the ways that distinction is made fabric via race, gender, and sexuality and the way that materiality is experienced. 

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