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ZAMBELLI, LAURA. "The deepest intimacy. A sociological account of Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism (BDSM) in contemporary Italy." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/84016.
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La tesi riguarda lo studio con metodi qualitativi della scena BDSM (Bondage, Dominazione, Sadismo e Masochismo) in Italia. In particolare, la scena BDSM di Milano, una delle maggiori nel paese, costituisce il campo in cui la ricerca è stata condotta per oltre un anno. I metodi qualitativi impiegati sono stati interviste semi-strutturate e osservazione partecipante delle maggiori feste a tematica BDSM, così come di altri eventi collaterali ed informali. Lo scopo principale della ricerca condotta riguarda l’analisi delle narrazioni di chi pratica BDSM sia per quanto riguarda il loro approccio a queste pratiche, sia per quanto riguarda i loro percorsi dentro la scena BDSM. Alcuni modelli sono emersi, e concetti quali identità/identificazione e traditione/innovazione sociale permettono una comprensione profonda delle narrazioni e collocazioni dei praticanti BDSM.
La posizione che questa ricerca occupa nel panorama sociologico contemporaneo è meglio compresa alla luce di un’analisi della letteratura accademica di stampo psicologico, psichiatrico, antropologico e sociologico. Inoltre, l’analisi delle interviste e della letteratura ha identificato ulteriori concetti che permettono differenti prospettive di approccio al BDSM; mi riferisco in particolare ai concetti di corpo, dolore, identità, sottocultura, poliamoria ed altri.
In particolare, i concetti di consenso e negoziazione, centrali nel BDSM, sono analizzati con l’obiettivo duplice di decostruire i discorsi di chi pratica BDSM e di comprendere come sono agiti all’interno degli incontri. L’analisi dei discorsi femminista e queer, a partire dalle cosiddette sex wars e fino all’inizio degli anni Duemila, permette di perseguire questi scopi, poiché tali discorsi hanno decostruito ed analizzato a fondo le categorie di consenso, negoziazione, e riproduzione degli stereotipi di genere nella società.
Un primo risultato della tesi riguarda l’importanza del concetto di intimità nella comprensione delle pratiche BDSM. L’intimità costituisce infatti uno dei principali obiettivi nello stabilire una relazione BDSM indipendentemente dal ruolo BDSM, dall’identità di genere, dal tipo di relazione, monogama o poliamorosa, e dall’orientamento sessuale. L’intimità è qui intesa come accesso alla parte più interna di sé, ed è utilizzata per ricodificare le narrazioni di chi pratica BDSM.
Il secondo risultato della tesi riguarda il ruolo del dolore fisico nelle interazioni BDSM. Il dolore in quanto tale non è infatti ricercato da chi pratica BDSM. Al contrario, nella maggior parte dei casi costituisce un mezzo per raggiungere particolari esperienze o relazioni. Per esempio, sia ricevere che procurare dolore può essere un mezzo per raggiungere l’orgasmo, del piacere fisico o un particolare tipo di relazione – una relazione intima.
Per concludere, l’analisi dei concetti chiave del BDSM, così come emersi sia dalla letteratura accademica che dalle interviste, evidenzia l’importanza della categoria di intimità nella comprensione e descrizione della scena BDSM italiana in particolare ed in generale relativa alle società occidentali.
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Cross, Patricia A. "Understanding sadomasochism an examination of current perspectives /." Connect to this title online, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0002/NQ42789.pdf.
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Lagauzère, Damien. "Le masochisme : du sadomasochisme au masochisme social." Nantes, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006NANT3042.
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Partant du masochisme comme déviance, nous montrons comment se construit la perception de certaines pratiques sexuelles comme déviantes puis comment le SM s'avère être une trajectoire vers et au sein de la déviance. La « planète SM » n'est pas tant une communauté qu'un ensemble de réseaux de relations partageant des valeurs sur lesquelles se greffent les spécificités de chaque réseau. Nous présentons un sous-groupe spécifique : le gay cuir. Des caractéristiques de certaines pratiques SM, nous dégageons les éléments et les étapes du masochisme (un type particulier de rapport au temps et à la contrainte) en tant que processus et non un simple ensemble de pratiques ou un type de relation. Ce processus est à l'oeuvre dans la constitution des sociétés, dont il est un des fondements. Les trois étapes de ce processus sont l'imposition de la contraine à l'individu, l'intériorisation de cette contrainte puis la construction de cette contrainte en source de satisfaction.
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Cross, Patricia A. "Understanding sadomasochism, an examination of current perspectives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0002/NQ42789.pdf.
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Vanter, Emma Louise. "Sadomasochism : does sexual psychopathology inhabit a sexually diverse extreme?" Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538021.
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Lohmüller, Torben. "Die verschlagene Lust : zur ästhetischen Subversion im Masochismus /." Heidelberg : Winter, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2859223&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Turcotte, Yvan. "Vers une approche empirique du sadisme sexuel." Thèse, [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/2765.
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Ovesson, Charlotte. "Sextortyr eller frigörelse : Konstruktioner av sadomasochism i svenska dagstidningar 2007-2011." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-12771.
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Denna studie kom till efter att RFSU hade börjat arbeta med frågor om sadomasochism, och efter att Socialstyrelsen tog bort sadomasochism ur sin diagnosmanual. Syftet med studien är att ta reda på vilka diskurser som används när media talar om sadomasochism. Queerteori är det teoretiska fundamentet i studien. Jag utgår även från Michel Foucaults teorier. Min metod är foucauldiansk genealogisk diskursanalys. Analysmaterialet består av 33 tryckta artiklar från svenska dags- och kvällstidningar. Resultatet visar att talet om sadomasochism i media följer olika diskurser. Vissa utgår från att normalisering är godtycklig, att normer är föränderliga och att alla människor bör ha rätt till sin egen sexualitet. Diskurser om kvinnor och barn utgår från att sadomasochism är farligt och att människor måste skyddas från sexuella avvikare. Det talas om sadism som inte sker under samtycke som sjukt. Vissa diskurser framställer sadomasochism som positivt och används i sadomasochisters identitetsskapade. Även när de accepterande artiklarna talar om sadomasochism görs det på ett sätt så att de sexuella normerna inte ifrågasätts. Media lägger fram en nomaliserad variant av sadomaschism som är lättare för allmänheten att acceptera. Sadomasochism fortsätter på grund av normaliseringen att betraktas som avvikande.
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Powls, Jonathan. "Characteristics and developmental history of people with an interest in sadomasochism." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434449.
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Moodley, Indira. ""A fine balance" : a case study of love, hatred and sadomasochism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6910.
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Bibliography: leaves 78-84.<br>This dissertation describes a clinical decision taken to separate an adolescent girl child from her mother and place her in the care of her father. This decision was considered imperative in light of the continued risks posed to the physical and emotional health of the child through continued living with her mother. The mother's combined presentation of hatred and sadomasochism, underlying a borderline personality structure, acted as a powerful obstacle in her being able to love her daughter. Using the theoretical tenets of self psychology to understand the clinical presentation of both mother and daughter, it emerged that the fragmented self-structure of the mother, which had its antecedents in her own traumatic childhood milieu did not permit an interpretive therapeutic approach. Instead work with both the mother and daughter required careful and continuous monitoring, and a flexible clinical stance especially when the therapy itself inadvertently retraumatised the mother. The advantage of the case study, the methodological design employed in this thesis, is that it enabled one to provide an in-depth study of a specific case, especially in light of issues that are considered unusual such as the separation that this intervention demanded. The case study also provided the opportunity to follow the progress of the psychotherapeutic treatment of the child both prior to and after the separation. A detailed discussion of the therapy provides an opportunity to reflect on the issues which informed the decision, the process and the outcome. Reflecting on the theoretical, research and clinical implications of the decision leads to the conclusion that the value of psychoanalytic theory cannot be undermined, especially as it provided the theoretical justification for the decision which has had a helpful outcome for the child concerned.
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Nordling, Niklas M. "Many faces of sadomasochistic sex /." Åbo : Åbo akademi university, 2009. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb414144895.
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Rathbone, June Alice. "Anatomy of masochism." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300470.
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Walters, Ruth. "Utopias lost : feminism and the problem of masochism." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282969.
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Yost, Megan R. "Consensual sexual sadomasochism and sexual aggression perpetration : exploring the erotic value of power /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Poutrain, Véronique. "Analyse interactionnelle des rapports sociaux de sexe et des rapports de pouvoir dans les relations sado-masochistes." Paris, EHESS, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EHES0101.
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Richter, Nicole Marie. "Our Veils Anticipate Our Shrouds: Eroticism in the Films of Catherine Breillat." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/420.
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This dissertation is an authorship study of the controversial contemporary French film director Catherine Breillat. Using screen captures to provide visual evidence for the philosophical and theoretical perspectives staked out by Breillat, I perform close analysis of the following six films: Une Vrai Jeune Fille (1976), 36 Fillette (1988), Romance (1999), À Ma Soeur (2001), Brève Traverseé (2001), and Anatomie de L'enfer (2004). Using theory only to supplement interpretations, I draw on the work of George Bataille, Stanley Cavell, and Slavoj Zizek. Breillat's films work through a series of important philosophical ideas integral to an account of eroticism: the paradox of speaking about silence; achieving purity through an encounter with disgust; the singularity of individual desire; the split in identity between the mind and the body; the relationship between sex and death; the relationship between the taboo and transgression; and the violence of female desire. Breillat's films encourage viewers to alter their thinking about sexuality and liberate themselves to lead a more fully erotic life. The capacity of Breillat's films to free eroticism is their most important contribution not only to film history, but also to the totality of human experience.
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Setzer, Katharine Adrienne. "Playing on-line : sexual subjectivity, gender play and the construction of the dyke SM fantasy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54267.pdf.
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Fulkerson, Anita. "Bound by consent: concepts of consent within the leather and bondage, domination, sadomasochism (BDSM) communities." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3717.
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This study is a qualitative examination of the definitions, beliefs, practices and the importance of consent within the Leather and Bondage, Domination, Sadomasochism (BDSM) communities using the experiences of those who identify as members of those communities. Through interviews with fifteen self-identified practitioners of BDSM/Leather, the research attempts to define consent, identify the importance of consent, and how consent is practiced within those lifestyles. It also seeks to address some of the commonly held misconceptions concerning the BDSM and Leather communities held by those outside the communities. The research attempts to establish how members of the communities define and practice consent in both their sexual and everyday lives.
The standard definition of consent given was an "informed agreement between persons to act in an activity which is mutually beneficial for everybody involved." (I1) Additional elements to the basic definition included the necessity of a sound mind (I2 & I3), that the agreement is made willingly, free from coercion and outside influence - either from another person or from mind altering substances (I1,I2, I3, I6, I14), and that consent must be given by both the dominant and submissive partners. Also, consent for the Leather and BDSM practitioners interviewed included an understanding by all parties about what was expected, what the parties were and were not willing to do during the course of the interaction (the scene), and where consent stopped. At its most basic level the idea of consent was stated as "the ability to say yes." (I13)<br>Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Liberal Studies
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Jakobsson, Hilda. ""Jag slog honom flera gånger och kysste honom mellan varje slag" : Incest, pedofili, sadomasochism och gotik i Carina Rydbergs roman Månaderna utan R." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Centrum för genusstudier, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-78483.
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I denna studie undersöker jag Carina Rydbergs skildring av "dålig" sexualitet. Jag gör en närläsning av Rydbergs roman Månaderna utan R. Läsningen utgår från Michel Foucaults och Jacques Derridas dekonstruktionsteorier samt från Judith Butlers genusteorier. Jag undersöker huruvida romanen kan läsas som gotisk, huruvida Rydberg kan sägas luckra upp gränsen mellan "god" och "dålig" sexualitet, samt huruvida hon skildrar sadomasochistiska kvinnor som subjekt. Jag kommer fram till att Rydberg kan sägas luckra upp gränsen mellan "god" och "dålig" sexualitet och att hon, genom att skildra sadomasochistiska kvinnor som subjekt, stör könade sexualitetsnormer. Häri ligger Rydbergs subversiva potential. Detta betraktar jag som en aspekt av den gotiska tradition som Månaderna utan R kan sägas tillhöra.
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Beckmann, Andrea. "The social construction of 'Sadomasochism' : subjugated knowledges and the broader social meanings of this bodily practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26285.
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The central ideas of this critical criminological thesis on the social construction of "Sadomasochism" are informed by Michel Foucault's politization of "truth" and "body" and represent an attempt to engage in politics of difference'(Sawicki, l991) in order to appreciate the contemporary expansion of the 'body practice' of consensual 'SM'. In order to avoid the traditional dualism of mind/body which 'haunts' much of feminist and deconstructionist accounts on 'sexuality', my thesis draws on Merleau- Ponty's notion of 'lived body'. The 'Spanner'-case [R. v. Brown: 1992-93] and the following decision of the European Court of Human Rights (19.2.1997) are taken as a point of departure in order to explore the relationship between legitimised concepts of 'body-practice' and the now legally restricted 'body-practice' of consensual 'SM'. The first chapter of this thesis attempts to defamiliarize the social constructions of 'sexuality' and 'Sadomasochism' as well as the 'body' and 'pain' as these are 'normalising' concepts of 'truth'. In this context the exploration of the meanings of 'body' and 'sexuality' in contemporary consumer culture is crucial as the criminalisation of consensual 'SM' which involves woundings that are not 'trifling or transient' is based on the protection of health 'of the bodies' involved. The following chapter focuses on the empirical research on consensual 'SM'-body-practice which I conducted within a mainly qualitative research-framework and an interactionist emphasis on meaning during 1996/97 in London and thus provides space for the 'subjugated knowledges' of this consensual body-practice'. The exposure of socially legitimized power relationships which are in many ways contradicted by the realities of "Sadomasochism" is the aim of chapter four of this thesis. Within this chapter I attempt to point out several contradictions of constructed meaning that the social construction of 'Sadomasochism' serves to keep hidden via its function of 'Other'. The project of deconstruction thus not only implies the deconstruction of concepts but also aims to expose: "... the problems which reside in the endeavour to keep meaning pure, to say 'just this' and not 'that', because 'just this' always depends on 'that' which it is not." (Naffine, l997, p.89). Chapter five reflects upon the empirical data and attempts to outline the potential broader social meanings of the rising interest in the consensual bodily practice'of 'SM' within contemporary 'postmodern' consumer culture. Chapter six offers an insight and exploration of the to my knowledge not yet empirically researched upon spiritual dimension of consensual 'Sadomasochism' and introduces the notion of transcendence. Apart from the evaluation of the results of a questionnaire on this topic, diverse examples of other historical spiritual practices within their socio-cultural settings are then analysed in their relevance to the current situation. The conclusion of this thesis attempts to offer an alternative reading of the 'bodily practice' of consensual 'SM' as a potential 'practice of resistance' and also explores its potential relevance in connection to Foucault's notion of the care of oneself.
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Jakobsson, Hilda. "Flickstaden : Flickbokens diskurs och sadomasochism i Agnes von Krusenstjernas Ninas dagbok, Helenas första kärlek och Fröknarna von Pahlen." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för litteraturvetenskap, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-78481.
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The object of this essay is the Swedish author Agnes von Krusenstjerna's novels Ninas dagbok (The diary of Nina) and Helenas första kärlek (Helena's first love) as well as the cycle novel Fröknarna von Pahlen (The misses von Pahlen). The purpose is to explore her use of the discourse of girls' fiction, which I analyse by the depiciton of women's sexual awakening, and her depiction of sadomasochism. The theories of Elaine Showalter, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Judith Butler are used. Women's sexual awakening is depicted similarly in the novels but more explicitly in Fröknarna von Pahlen. In Ninas dagbok and Helenas första kärlek there is an eroticization of dominance and submission, which is not explicitly sadomasochistic. In Fröknarna von Pahlen, sadomasochism is explicitly described as a "perverted" sexuality and reveals the inequality in the violent sexuality, which is described as "normal". The sexuality that is included in Fröknarna von Pahlen's ending utopia is a female same-sex sexuality, which is a further development of the intimate friendships that are often depicted through the discourse of girls' fiction. Accordingly, Fröknarna von Pahlen and its ending utopia can be interpreted as a "city of girls", that is a further developement of subjects such as female same-sex sexuality and sadomasochism that can only be implied within the discourse of girls' fiction.
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Agnell, Emma. "Sadomasochism and compliance in the Twilight Saga : Female Submission and the Romance of Being Loved to Death." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23375.
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This essay examines the sadomasochistic relationship between the main characters of the Twilight Saga from a psychoanalytic perspective, and looks at the family and gender roles in the Saga from a post-feministic view. Aspects also considered are the portrayal of female sexuality as something dangerous and negative, recreational sex as something perverted, and the pro-marriage and anti-abortion propaganda in the last two novels. The purpose of the essay is to reveal how the author’s personal, and to some extent religious, beliefs and values are validated through the storyline; how the relationship between the main characters, as well as their personal psychological and physical health, change after matrimony and parenthood.
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Nahra, Cinara. "A morality for the third millennium : (prostitution, homosexuality and sadomasochism in the light of Kant and Mill)." Thesis, University of Essex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415952.
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Gadelha, José Juliano Barbosa. "O sensível e o cruel: uma aprendizagem pelas performances sadomasoquistas." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/17047.
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GADELHA, José Juliano Barbosa. O sensível e o cruel: uma aprendizagem pelas performances sadomasoquistas. 2016. 130f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Instituto de Cultura e Arte, Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes, Fortaleza (CE), 2016.<br>Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-27T13:19:43Z
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Previous issue date: 2016<br>This dissertation deals with the experimentation with sadomasochistic performances in an anthropologic and artistic process of thinking by constructing a poetics of cruelty. On that learning journey, the author will propose the actualization of a performative-installation that transmits sensitive signs (figurative and figural ones) of sadomasochism. The theoretical traverse lines come from Bruno Latour’s symmetrical anthropology, Antonin Artaud’s theatre of cruelty, Clarice Lispector’s literature, the philosophy of the sensible by Jacques Rancière with the nomadic philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, the Performance Studies, and the dissident knowledges from Queer Theory, specially the contrasexual thinking by Paul Beatriz Preciado. Taking sensation and representation during this learning, the lines of force will be sought by allowing the anthropologic and artistic knowledge to move through the simultaneity of cultural and natural agencies which, in the poststructuralist turn, soar towards new perspectives on what arts, genders, sexualities, the current machines of production-injunction-reappropriation of pleasures and the technologies of bodies could be. To sum up, this dissertation has affect as an axe whose sciences named methodology and the percept as an epistemology of the lived experience.<br>Esta dissertação trata da experimentação com as performances sadomasoquistas em um processo de pensamento e criação antropológico e artístico, construindo uma poética da crueldade. Nas aprendizagens desse trajeto, o autor vai propondo a realização de uma instalação-performativa que transmita os signos sensíveis (figurativos e figurais) do sadomasoquismo. Os atravessamentos teóricos vão da antropologia simétrica de Bruno Latour, o teatro da crueldade de Antonin Artaud, a literatura de Clarice Lispector, a filosofia do sensível de Jacques Rancière, a filosofia nômade de Deleuze e Guattari aos Performance Studies e os saberes dissidentes da Queer Theory, em especial com o saber da contrassexualidade de Paul Beatriz Preciado. Nas tomadas de sensação e representação das aprendizagens, buscar-se-á seguir as linhas de força que permitam ao conhecimento antropológico-artístico se movimentar pelas simultaneidades das agências culturais e das agências naturais que, na guinada pós-estruturalista, disparam rumo às novas perspectivas do que sejam as artes, os gêneros, os sexos, as sexualidades e as atuais máquinas de produção-injunção-reapropriação dos prazeres e das tecnologias dos corpos. Em suma, a dissertação tem o afecto como eixo daquilo que as ciências chamam de metodologia e o percepto como epistemologia do vivido.
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Demangeot, Fabien. "Fantasme et représentation dans l'oeuvre d'Alain Robbe-Grillet." Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01016557.
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Cette thèse aura pour but d'interroger deux notions majeures de l'oeuvre robbe-grillétienne : le '' Fantasme'' et la '' Représentation''. Il s'agira, principalement, de mettre en perspective les différents rapports qui se tissent entre elles et la manière dont elles édifient l'oeuvre du Nouveau Romancier. La façon dont Robbe-Grillet représente le fantasme sera au centre de cette recherche, mais nous aborderons également la notion de représentation à travers le motif du théâtre. En effet, les personnages des films et romans de Robbe-Grillet ne cessent de jouer des rôles stéréotypés (l'espion, la prostituée, le docteur sadique etc.) et il arrive fréquemment que les lieus présentés au début de la diégèse se muent en scènes de spectacle. Chez l'auteur de La Jalousie Le fantasme est fortement théâtralisé comme l'atteste également l'omniprésence de la thématique sadomasochiste. Espace de tous les possibles, l'oeuvre de Robbe-Grillet fantasme aussi sa propre gestation. Le Nouveau Romancier, à l' image du texte qu'il a engendré, est devenu, lui-aussi, un objet de représentation. Ouverte sur de multiples métamorphoses, cette oeuvre aussi ludique que complexe ne cherche pourtant pas à dévoiler l'ensemble de ses mécanismes. Elle laisse la possibilité au récepteur de créer les siens en acceptant ou non le pacte de lecture proposé par l'auteur. Le lecteur-spectateur, à la fois au centre et à l'extérieur de tout ce qu'il peut lire et voir, se retrouve au coeur d'une représentation qui est autant la sienne que celle de l'auteur.
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Van, Der Walt Herman. "Practitioner psychologists' understandings of bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadomasochism (BDSM) : shared or separate from those who practise it." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2014. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/13033/.
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Research with individuals who practise consensual Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadism, Masochism (BDSM) has revealed a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon which serves various functions for its practitioners. Historical associations of BDSM practice with underlying psychopathology, despite empirical evidence to the contrary, may lead to misunderstanding among practitioner psychologists and potentially biased or culturally insensitive psychological treatment of BDSM-oriented individuals. This Q-methodological study investigated subjective understandings of BDSM among practitioner psychologists and whether these understandings were shared with or separate from those who practise BDSM. Forty practitioner psychologists and 40 BDSM practitioners completed a q-sorting task and brief questionnaire online. Comparable majority understandings of BDSM – as a complex phenomenon concerned mainly with power and pleasure – emerged between the psychologist and BDSM practitioner groups. Psychologists generally did not consider themselves particularly knowledgeable on the subject of BDSM, partly due to having received limited teaching and training. There is a need for raising awareness among practitioner psychologists of BDSM as a non-normative, minority sexuality.
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Calvo, Juan. "La estética de la crueldad en la narrativa de Terenci Moix /." Connect to Digital dissertations. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Carlström, Lotta. "Eskortverksamhet med fokus på försäljning av BDSM-tjänster." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24834.
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The purpose of this study is to examine escort-business with a focus on sales of BDSM-services (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism). The study is based on qualitative interviews with three informants providing BDSM-services, as well as a survey with 96 men who requested domination of escorts (the survey was carried out by an escort in the 1980s). The analysis of this material resulted in the identification of three themes on which the study centers: The personal experiences of the three escorts, the interaction between the escorts and the clients, and the changes over time when it comes to the performance of BDSM-services. The study has a gender perspective. The important conclusions are that there are several differences between prostitution having a focus on BDSM-services and other prostitution. Sexual intercourse is not a common occurrence. Role-playing games involving domination and submission, physical pain, humiliation and fantasies are instead central elements. Due to the security risks submissive services have been assumed not to exist in prostitution. In this study, however, two of the informants present themselves as submissive. Nothing in the empirical material suggests a greater security risk for escorts providing BDSM-services than other sexsellers. Instead, the escorts themselves characterize the phenomenon by straightforwardness, upright communication, and pre-agreed rules of the interaction.
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GILLERI, GIOVANNA. "Sexed/gendered subjectivities inside and outside international human rights law." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/333616.
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This thesis investigates the interrelationship between sex and gender under international human rights law and how this influences individual subject formations. The research combines feminist, queer and psychoanalytical theories to scrutinise the sexed/gendered human rights discourse, starting from the theoretical assumptions underpinning the interpretations of sex, gender, and the related notions of gender identity, sex characteristics and sexual orientation. Specific interpretations of these categories outline the definition of victims and perpetrators of sex/gender-based abuses. Human rights law has so far accounted for the diversity of sexed/gendered subjectivities only to a limited extent, being based on four axioms: there are only two sexes and two genders (m/f); sex is a natural fact and gender is a social construct (sex ≠ gender); gender is the metonymic signifier for women (gender = women); gender power relations take the asymmetrical shape of male domination versus female oppression (m > f). Interpretations of domination and subordination in relation to femininities and masculinities determine the scope of human rights protections. Gender-based analysis on subordination has predominantly concentrated on women as the vulnerable group subject to men’s domination. However, such a focus excludes the consideration of differences within the same groups of men, women and any other gendered individuals, and thereby the multiple, nuanced gendered dynamics between gendered subjects. In contrast, this research maintains that dominative and subordinate postures interchangeably attach to femininities and masculinities, depending on the subjects’ roles, their positionalities and the situational meanings of their acts. The examination of two case-studies, on the UN human rights treaty bodies’ vocabulary on medically unnecessary interventions upon intersex children and on the European Court of Human Rights’ narrative on sadomasochism, shows the limits of an approach to gender which is based on rigid dichotomic pairs of masculinity/femininity, domination/subordination and perpetrator/victim. Such an approach can hardly reveal the assumptions of gendered interplays and their impact on subject formation.
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Pühler, Simon Verfasser], Hartmut [Akademischer Betreuer] [Böhme, and Natascha [Akademischer Betreuer] Adamowsky. "Funny games : Spielräume des Sadomasochismus in Film und Medien / Simon Pühler. Gutachter: Hartmut Böhme ; Natascha Adamowsky." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1062627636/34.
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Pühler, Simon [Verfasser], Hartmut [Akademischer Betreuer] Böhme, and Natascha [Akademischer Betreuer] Adamowsky. "Funny games : Spielräume des Sadomasochismus in Film und Medien / Simon Pühler. Gutachter: Hartmut Böhme ; Natascha Adamowsky." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100221818.
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Gunbrandt, Annette. "Sexuell dominans : En kvalitativ studie av fyra sexuellt dominanta kvinnor." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Social Anthropology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16600.
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<p>Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka hur fyra sexuellt dominanta kvinnor uppfattar sin sexualitet. Särskilt inriktar den sig på hur kvinnorna definierar sig som sexuellt dominanta och vad dominans innebär för dem sexuellt men också till vardags och generellt. Vidare undersöks hur informanterna uppfattar sin sexuella dominans i relation till sin identitet och sitt identitetsskapande överlag. För att kunna verkställa syftet har fyra kvinnor intervjuats som alla definierar sig som sexuellt dominanta på ett eller annat vis. Fortsättningsvis inriktar sig uppsatsen på kvinnor som utövar sin sexuella dominans via aktiviteter och uttryck för dominans vanliga inom bdsm.</p><br><p>This thesis aims to examine how four sexually dominant women understand their sexuality. It specifically concentrates upon how the women defines themselves as sexually dominant and what dominance means to them sexually but also what it means to them in everyday life and in general. Additionally this essay examines how the informants understand their sexual dominance in relation to their identity and in shaping their identity. In order to carry out the purpose of this thesis four women who define themselves in one way or another as sexually dominant have been interviewed. Furthermore the study focuses upon women who practice their sexual dominance through activities and expressions that are common in the world of bdsm.</p>
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Butcher, Dick. "Mapping the shadow in the work of de Sade & Sacher-Masoch constellating sociological & psychological possibilities /." Connect to this title online, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ33525.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 1998. Graduate Programme in Sociology.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-274). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL:http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ33525.
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Carlström, Lotta. "Ett slag för njutningen. En studie om BDSM-utövande inom relationer." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26347.
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The purpose of this study is to hightlight experiences of living in a relationship where BDSM is being exercised. The acronym is an umbrella term for bondage/discipline, dominance/submission and sadomasochism. The study is based on qualitative interviews with five persons who define themselves as BDSM practitioners. The overall questions of this study are: How does the BDSM practice appear in everyday life? How did the practice start and how has it developed over time? What's included in the sexual BDSM practice? The empirical material has been analyzed with interactionism as the theoritical framework.The picture that emerges is complex. To define oneself as a BDSM practitioner might mean different things for different people where the extent of the practice, what it consists of and how integrated it is in the lives of people might vary from person to person. But despite differences there are also recurring, common patterns in the stories of the informants. All of them describe the practice in positive terms. To a great extent the practice has to do with sexuality where an explicit power exchange, an assuming of dominant and submissive roles and an everyday life filled with rituals, rules and agreements are described as being key elements. Punishment, in the form of physical pain or humiliation, is common when the rules are not obeyed. All the interviewees use safewords to make sure both are comfortable about what's happening. Some sort of tool is utilized by all. The most common are whips, bonds, chains and locks, paddles, clamps/clothespins, knives, butt plugs and ropes. There's an occupation among the informants to find and to form strategies to cope and to adapt the BDSM role to other roles and here the parental role is the most apparent. Also an ambition to create a balance between the personal norms and the norms of the BDSM culture and those of the overall society can be seen. The interviewees express a search for answers to why one practices BDSM. In this process they return to experiences, almost exclusively of a destructive nature, and they wonder if these experiences have affected their sexuality and their preference for BDSM. It's like this even if the common attitude in society actually has become more accepting, for example with the help of media, recent research and the fact that it's not anymore is considered being a disorder.
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Ford, Ashley. "Willing Participant: The Emergent Sexuality of Post-Feminist Women." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1154.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Art
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Gadelha, Josà Juliano Barbosa. "O sensÃvel e o cruel: uma aprendizagem pelas performances sadomasoquistas." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16942.
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico<br>FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do CearÃ<br>Esta dissertaÃÃo trata da experimentaÃÃo com as performances sadomasoquistas em um processo de pensamento e criaÃÃo antropolÃgico e artÃstico, construindo uma poÃtica da crueldade. Nas aprendizagens desse trajeto, o autor vai propondo a realizaÃÃo de uma instalaÃÃo-performativa que transmita os signos sensÃveis (figurativos e figurais) do sadomasoquismo. Os atravessamentos teÃricos vÃo da antropologia simÃtrica de Bruno Latour, o teatro da crueldade de Antonin Artaud, a literatura de Clarice Lispector, a filosofia do sensÃvel de Jacques RanciÃre, a filosofia nÃmade de Deleuze e Guattari aos Performance Studies e os saberes dissidentes da Queer Theory, em especial com o saber da contrassexualidade de Paul Beatriz Preciado. Nas tomadas de sensaÃÃo e representaÃÃo das aprendizagens, buscar-se-à seguir as linhas de forÃa que permitam ao conhecimento antropolÃgico-artÃstico se movimentar pelas simultaneidades das agÃncias culturais e das agÃncias naturais que, na guinada pÃs-estruturalista, disparam rumo Ãs novas perspectivas do que sejam as artes, os gÃneros, os sexos, as sexualidades e as atuais mÃquinas de produÃÃo-injunÃÃo-reapropriaÃÃo dos prazeres e das tecnologias dos corpos. Em suma, a dissertaÃÃo tem o afecto como eixo daquilo que as ciÃncias chamam de metodologia e o percepto como epistemologia do vivido.<br>This dissertation deals with the experimentation with sadomasochistic performances in an anthropologic and artistic process of thinking by constructing a poetics of cruelty. On that learning journey, the author will propose the actualization of a performative-installation that transmits sensitive signs (figurative and figural ones) of sadomasochism. The theoretical traverse lines come from Bruno Latourâs symmetrical anthropology, Antonin Artaudâs theatre of cruelty, Clarice Lispectorâs literature, the philosophy of the sensible by Jacques RanciÃre with the nomadic philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, the Performance Studies, and the dissident knowledges from Queer Theory, specially the contrasexual thinking by Paul Beatriz Preciado. Taking sensation and representation during this learning, the lines of force will be sought by allowing the anthropologic and artistic knowledge to move through the simultaneity of cultural and natural agencies which, in the poststructuralist turn, soar towards new perspectives on what arts, genders, sexualities, the current machines of production-injunction-reappropriation of pleasures and the technologies of bodies could be. To sum up, this dissertation has affect as an axe whose sciences named methodology and the percept as an epistemology of the lived experience.
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Bent, Jacquelyn. "Psychopathic traits in community samples : an examination of the relationship between psychopathic traits, disgust sensitivity, neurocognitive dysfunction and consensual sadomasochism in subclinical samples." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2013. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/24334/.
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Psychopathy is currently conceptualised as a personality disorder that results in cognitive, neurological, affective deficits, behavioural problems, criminal behaviour and recidivism. Psychopathy is most often associated with the offending population, and as consequence, psychopathy based research has been dominated by examination of the male, offender psychopathy. Consequently, what is currently conceptualised regarding psychopathy is biased toward this particular psychopathy sub-type. Recent research provides evidence that psychopathy is heterogeneous, dimensional construct found in a varied populations and age groups. The deficits so often associated with psychopathy may vary based on the sub-type of psychopathy this includes subclinical subtypes of psychopathy that seem to be present. Consequently, what is understood about psychopathy including the assumptions regarding affective, neurocognitive, deficits, higher risk of violence, including sexual violence, and other assumptions may be dependent upon the sub-type of psychopathy or preponderance of psychopathic traits present. External correlates associated with psychopathy have been examined in non-clinical samples to examine how aversive emotion, disgust, and atypical sexual fantasy and practices, in the form of consensual sadomasochism may be related to psychopathic traits as measured by the PPI-R.
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Melo, Marília Loschi de. "A dor no corpo : identidade , gênero e sociabilidade em festas BDSM no Rio de Janeiro." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2788.
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Esta dissertação é uma etnografia realizada em três festas fetichistas/sadomasoquistas (autodenominadas BDSM), abertas ao público em geral, que acontecem na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Meu objetivo foi investigar este tipo de sociabilidade, tendo como foco dois importantes temas das Ciências Sociais: festas e sexualidade. A revisão teórica e a análise do material de campo buscam o diálogo com estes temas através de uma reflexão sobre identidade e gênero.<br>This study consists on an ethnography in three public fetishist/sadomasochistic parties (self-called BDSM parties) that take place in Rio de Janeiro. My aim was to investigate this kind of sociability, focusing on two important themes in Social Sciences: parties and sexuality. Bibliographic review and fieldwork analysis search for a dialog with these two themes by means of considering identity and gender issues.
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Robo, Arlette. "Délires et conduites d'agir dans les désorganisations psychotiques de l'adolescence : pour une compréhension métapsychologique." Paris 5, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA05H052.
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Au cours de la dernière décennie, les pathologies dites de l'agir se sont vues accorder une grande place au sein de la conceptualisation en métapsychologie. A l'adolescence, le corps occupe une place paradoxale, chez un sujet qui en perçoit les transformations et ne les a pas encore intégrées. Comment comprendre, coordonner, voire ordonner l'existence de symptomatologies mentales positives tel le délire et des symptomatologies négatives telles les conduites d'agir dans les désorganisations psychotiques de l'adolescence ? Dans cette recherche, nous appréhendons le délire et les conduites d'agir en termes de solution chez des adolescents suivis en hôpital de jour. Il s'agit d'une étude longitudinale sous-tendue par l'hypothèse suivante : Délires et conduites d'agir sont des symptômes qui tentent de résoudre les conflits entre narcissisme et anti-narcissisme. Pour mener à bien cette recherche, nous avons eu recours à des entretiens cliniques avec cinq adolescents, à la passation de tests projectifs ( Rorschach et T. A. T. ) et aux données cliniques émanant de leurs référents ainsi que des réunions de synthèse. L'analyse des données montre qu'au cours d'une prise en charge institutionnelle, les conduites d'agir peuvent témoigner d'une tentative de relance du processus sado-masochique à l'origine du noyau narcissique du Moi<br>During the latter decade, the pathologies defined as acting out behaviors have been bestowed a large place within the metapsychological conceptualisation. In the course of adolescence, the body takes up a paradoxicalal room in a being who perceive transformations and has not yet integrated them. How to understand, coordinate, indeed organize the existence of mental symptomatologies positive ones, such as delirium,and negative ones such as acting out behaviors, among the psychotic desorders of adolescence? In our research, we perceive delirium and acting out behaviors as solutions for teenagers treated in a day hospital. This research is a longitudinal study upheld by the following hypothesis : Delirium and acting out behavior are symptoms trying to resolve the conflits between Narcissism and anti-Narcissism. To manage this research efficiently, we had recourse to clinical interviews with five teenagers, to projective personality tests ( Rorschach and T. A. T) as well as to clinical pieces of information from referents and staffs. The analysis of the pieces of information collected show that when teenagers are in the care of a suitable institution, their acting out behaviors may reveal an attempt to revitalize the sadomasochistic process at the care of the organisation of the narcissistic nucleus of the Ego
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Bornlöf, Julia. "Bloody Penny Picture Pose : A comparative study on the representation of sexuality and violence within the aesthetics of Victorian Gothic horror." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Modevetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-175535.
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There is an ongoing fascination with the Victorian era as well as the genre of horror, and the characters originating from the first 18th century Gothic tales still appear in our Western popular culture today. The Victorian Gothic novels contain elements of romanticism and violence which often results in strong undertones of heated sexuality. I argue that it is one of the reasons for the genre’s wide popularity. This thesis examines the representation of femininity and female sexuality within a Victorian horror context by a comparative analyse of illustrations from British 19th century Penny Blood publications with contemporary fashion photographs. The images are analysed by applying Erwin Panofsky’s method of Iconography and with the theoretical framework of feminist visual culture, and historical theories on sexuality, biology and violence. The thesis shows how Gothic visualisations are interpreted and appropriated photographically today, where the latter is darker and more exaggerated than the former. Symbols of sexuality, female agency, dominance and submission are equally found in the Victorian and the contemporary material. However, the Victorian aesthetic has become a platform where a nude, sexual female body in a S&M situation can offer a spectrum of meanings and even symbols of feminism. It is a visual culture where women can fight back, taking revenge on their oppressor and looking fierce when doing so.
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Lindmark, Elin. ""Om jag får bestämma så bestämmer jag att inte bestämma" : En kvalitativ studie om varför vissa kvinnor väljer att vara sexuellt undergivna." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1099.
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Franco, Marie. "SM in Postmodern America." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532004486477585.
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Déry, Caroline. "Étude de la normativité sexuelle contemporaine : le cas d'une communauté de pratiques BDSM." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27502.
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Afin de cerner la teneur de la normativité sexuelle en contexte contemporain, cette étude prend pour objet les discours de praticien-ne-s de BDSM (bondage, discipline, domination, soumission, sadomasochisme) et la manière dont ces derniers font l'expérience du regard des autres sur leurs pratiques. L'étude montre que le type de rapport au jeu des praticien-ne-s influence leur rapport à la norme. Selon que les praticien-ne-s cherchent ou non à gommer la distance entre leur rôle dans le cadre du jeu et leur identité sociale, ils sont susceptibles de se positionner en rupture ou en continuité vis-à-vis de la normalité sexuelle. Tandis que ceux qui cherchent à quotidianiser leur pratique adoptent une attitude de distinction et conçoivent la sexualité normale comme étant ennuyeuse, les autres qui conçoivent le BDSM comme un jeu circonscrit dans des moments spécifiques sont portés à normaliser leurs pratiques et à les situer dans le prolongement de la normalité sexuelle. Les distinctions entre les deux types de rapport au BDSM (celui des tenant-e-s de la vieille école et des joueurs) portent essentiellement sur leur rapport aux coulisses du jeu et à la distance vis-à-vis des rôles. Les praticien-ne-s ne ressentent que très peu de stigmatisation auprès d'autrui. Les traces de l'épreuve d'un stigmate n'apparaissent que via le prisme de complexes et questionnements personnels chez les répondant-e-s qui s'interrogent parfois à savoir si leur intérêt pour certaines pratiques est sain. Les pratiques BDSM sont de l'ordre de la sphère privée et constituent un stigmate invisible. Les praticien-ne-s choisissent à qui et de quelle manière révéler qu'ils s'adonnent au BDSM en se basant sur la compréhension qu'ils ont de la normativité. Le niveau d'intimité partagé ainsi que la séparation entre la sphère privée et publique font office de critères pour départager à qui révéler son intérêt pour le BDSM et comment.
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Gignac, Patrick Joseph. "Oppressive relationships/related oppressions ethnicity, gender, and sexuality and the role of gay identity in James Baldwin's Another country and Hubert Fichte's Versuch über die Pubertät /." Connect to this title online, 1996. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63422.pdf.
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Nathanson, Shelby. "Bite Me: Sadomasochistic Gender Relations in Contemporary Vampire Literature." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1629.
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While the term sadomasochism might conjure cursory images of whips, chains, and leather-clad fetishists, this thesis delves deeper into sadomasochistic theory to analyze dynamics of power and powerlessness represented by a chosen sample of literary relationships. Using two contemporary works of vampire literature—Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series—I examine how power is structured by and between male and female characters (and vampires and humans), and particularly emphasize the patriarchal messages these works' regressive sexual politics engender. Psychoanalysis and feminist theory are employed to support my overarching argument following the gendered dynamics of male sadism and female masochism (and vampire sadism and human masochism), as this dyad reflects men's and women's "normalized" roles of power and powerlessness, respectively, in today's society. Sadomasochistic relationships as depicted in this literature are created through mutual contracts or, what I refer to as, sociocultural sadomasochism to reflect the gendered power imbalances inherent in patriarchy. By concluding with readers' responses to these franchises, this thesis further attempts to determine why such unequal and oppressive relationships are desirable. Since vampires as Gothic figures embody what specific cultures dread yet desire, this literature possesses frightening implications—gender roles are conservative and masculinity is privileged in fiction and, by extension, in twenty-first-century American culture.<br>B.A.<br>Bachelors<br>English<br>Arts and Humanities
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Brown, Toni O. L. "“If Someone Finds Out You're a Perv:” The Experience and Management of Stigma in the BDSM Subculture." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1279225927.
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Da, Silva Jose. "Fault Lines: Queer Skinheads and Gay Male Subjectivity in the Film Praxis of Bruce LaBruce." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15836/1/Jose_Da_Silva_Thesis.pdf.
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Fault Lines positions a theory of gay male subjectivity as it relates to the Queer skinhead and its dissemination in gay male pornography. In narrating the transformation of the original skinhead as a subcultural youth type to its present re-signification as a fetish and sexual identity within gay male subculture, Fault Lines reveals a tripartite problem of fetishism, sadomasochism and fascism. Through an analysis of Bruce LaBruce's film Skin Gang / Skin Flick (1999) these problems are contextualised within a discourse of gay male pornography, broadening the investigation to consider how problems of masculinity, violence and race manifest within a distinctly gay male sexual imaginary. Examining the representational function of the Queer skinhead, Fault Lines seeks to speculate on how notions of a gay male subject and subjectivity can be established at the intersection of an aesthetic, political and social experience.
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Da, Silva Jose. "Fault Lines: Queer Skinheads and Gay Male Subjectivity in the Film Praxis of Bruce LaBruce." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15836/.
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Fault Lines positions a theory of gay male subjectivity as it relates to the Queer skinhead and its dissemination in gay male pornography. In narrating the transformation of the original skinhead as a subcultural youth type to its present re-signification as a fetish and sexual identity within gay male subculture, Fault Lines reveals a tripartite problem of fetishism, sadomasochism and fascism. Through an analysis of Bruce LaBruce's film Skin Gang / Skin Flick (1999) these problems are contextualised within a discourse of gay male pornography, broadening the investigation to consider how problems of masculinity, violence and race manifest within a distinctly gay male sexual imaginary. Examining the representational function of the Queer skinhead, Fault Lines seeks to speculate on how notions of a gay male subject and subjectivity can be established at the intersection of an aesthetic, political and social experience.
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Szabowski, Lara. "Seduction at the Boundary of Horror : The limits of bodily autonomy in sexuality." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-40300.
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The thesis discusses the topic of bodily autonomy as a Human Rights related matter in connection to sexuality, specifically BDSM. In the realm of BDSM concerns regarding bodily autonomy, bodily integrity, perversion, physical and mental health can be found. Therefore the space of BDSM is analyzed in regards to aspects, such as medico-judicial institutions, social and personal perception factor in on the space of bodily autonomy and its transgression, with the aim of getting a deeper understanding of the concept of bodily autonomy. Three different countries, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Denmark are being analyzed and compared in a content analysis. Foucault’s theory of power, self-disciplining, transgression as well as Bataille's theory of transgression and eroticism are made use of. This shows how and which topics relate to bodily autonomy and each other and how bodily autonomy and its use changes depending on the factors relation to each other and their prioritization.
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Pühler, Simon. "Funny games." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17063.
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"FUNNY GAMES. Spielräume des Sadomasochismus in Film und Medien" ist der Versuch, eine Geschichte medialer Schmerzlust zu rekonstruieren – in etwa von 1789 bis heute. Neben klassischer SM-Literatur sind es Spielfilme wie VIDEODROME (1983), FALSCHER BEKENNER (2005), THE HURT LOCKER (2008) oder SHORTBUS (2006), in denen modernes Schmerzlust-Empfinden und -Begehren offenbar wird. Die Untersuchung richtet sich dabei auf Konzepte technoimaginärer Wunsch- und Höllenmaschinen, dynamisierte Ich-Apparate, wie sie Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade, Leopold und Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, Ernst Kapp, Sigmund Freud, Daniel Paul Schreber, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze und Félix Guattari, David Cronenberg, Michael Haneke, Kathryn Bigelow u.v.a. im Medienumfeld ihrer Zeit individuell erleben und auf ihre je eigene Art – meist sehr fantasiereich – bearbeiten. Der vorliegende Entwurf, medienarchäologische Spurensicherung und gleichsam Test-Spiel, ist vor allem eine Einladung zum Mitmachen: Beim obsessiven Durchschreiten virtueller (Alptraum-)Welten und realer Körper negative und positive Lust zu erfahren, sich neuen Sinnesreizqualitäten zu öffnen, um schließlich Mehr-Lust und -Wissen zu erwerben. Anti-Ödipus als interaktives Video(bei)spiel. Als Analysetools haben sich Erkenntnisse aus der (strukturalen) Psychoanalyse, der (technischen) Medienwissenschaft, (Film-)Philosophie, der Gender-, Gewalt-, Fetisch- und (kulturwissenschaftlichen) Spieltheorie als hilfreich erwiesen, um dem Geheimnis und Rätsel sadomasochistischer Schmerzlust – und ihrer crash-Medien – ein wenig näher zu kommen.<br>"FUNNY GAMES. Spielräume des Sadomasochismus in Film und Medien" aims to reconstruct a history of pleasure and gratification through pain in the media since the end of the eighteenth century. In addition to classical sado-masochistic literature, the thesis focuses on movies in which modern forms of experiencing and desiring pain such as VIDEODROME (1983), I AM GUILTY (2005), THE HURT LOCKER (2008) and SHORTBUS (2006) manifest themselves. Central to the study are concepts of techno-imaginary wish machines and infernal devices, dynamised ego-apparatuses, that are experienced and expressed through the media of their time by writers, philosophers, psychoanalysts and film directors such as Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade, Leopold and Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, Ernst Kapp, Sigmund Freud, Daniel Paul Schreber, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, David Cronenberg, Michael Haneke and Kathryn Bigelow. The present study, an attempt to secure the medial evidence and try it out at the same time, is meant most of all as an invitation to participate: to experience positive desire and lust while obsessively progressing through virtual worlds of dreams and nightmares and the real world of the human body, to open oneself to new experiences in order to gain both new knowledge and new desires. Anti-Oedipus as a textual videogame. The analytical tools employed in this study include findings from (structural) psychoanalysis, media sciences, (movie) philosophy, gender theory, the theory of violence, fetish theory and game theory as applied in cultural studies. They have proven to be very helpful in illuminating at least some aspects of the mystery that is the sado-masochist desire for pain.