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Latex and Lingerie: Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties (Materializing
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
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- ISBN
- 9781859736982
- Book Title
- Latex and Lingerie : Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties
- Book Series
- Materializing Culture Ser.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Design, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Home-Based Businesses, Fashion & Accessories, Sales & Selling / General
- Item Weight
- 12.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
185973698X
ISBN-13
9781859736982
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038489983
Product Key Features
Book Title
Latex and Lingerie : Shopping for Pleasure at Ann Summers Parties
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Home-Based Businesses, Fashion & Accessories, Sales & Selling / General
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Design, Business & Economics
Book Series
Materializing Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
12.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-004505
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Meticulously researched, and written with great verve and style, Latex and Lingerie makes a major contribution to our understanding of heterosexual femininities. It shows how being 'one of the girls' is constructed around manifold exclusions of class, sexuality, 'race' and ethnicity, and how the 'fun' on offer in Anne Summers parties is of a distinctly post-feminist variety. Storr has fashioned a highly original analysis of female homosociality that takes both its pleasures and its problems seriously. This is an extremely important book that is destined to become a classic in the fields of gender, sexuality and cultural studies., This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolved through the marketing and practice of Ann Summers parties. These parties play with the dynamic of useless men and liberated women, offering sex toys as the solution to the power gap; they promote hegemonic masculinity as inevitable whilst ridiculing it at the same time. This book shows that sex toys are symbolically central to current power formations in gender and class relations. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot from this book., "This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolved through the marketing and practice of Ann Summers parties. These parties play with the dynamic of useless men and liberated women, offering sex toys as the solution to the power gap; they promote hegemonic masculinity as inevitable whilst ridiculing it at the same time. This book shows that sex toys are symbolically central to current power formations in gender and class relations. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot from this book." --Professor Beverley Skeggs, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester "Meticulously researched, and written with great verve and style, Latex and Lingerie makes a major contribution to our understanding of heterosexual femininities. It shows how being 'one of the girls' is constructed around manifold exclusions of class, sexuality, 'race' and ethnicity, and how the 'fun' on offer in Anne Summers parties is of a distinctly post-feminist variety. Storr has fashioned a highly original analysis of female homosociality that takes both its pleasures and its problems seriously. This is an extremely important book that is destined to become a classic in the fields of gender, sexuality and cultural studies." -- Rosalind Gill, Gender Institute, London School of Economics, 'This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolved through the marketing and practice of Ann Summers parties. These parties play with the dynamic of useless men and liberated women, offering sex toys as the solution to the power gap; they promote hegemonic masculinity as inevitable whilst ridiculing it at the same time. This book shows that sex toys are symbolically central to current power formations in gender and class relations. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot from this book.' Professor Beverley Skeggs, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester 'Meticulously researched, and written with great verve and style, Latex and Lingerie makes a major contribution to our understanding of heterosexual femininities. It shows how being 'one of the girls' is constructed around manifold exclusions of class, sexuality, 'race' and ethnicity, and how the 'fun' on offer in Anne Summers parties is of a distinctly post-feminist variety. Storr has fashioned a highly original analysis of female homosociality that takes both its pleasures and its problems seriously. This is an extremely important book that is destined to become a classic in the fields of gender, sexuality and cultural studies.' Rosalind Gill, Gender Institute, London School of Economics '. . .Storr makes and excellent contribution to debastes in tast and consumption, describing the formation of class as a process rather than a static definition. . . .[T]his work is an excellent example of how products, their design, marketing and consumption, are at the fore of social theoretical debate.' Alsion Clarke, Journal of Design History, 'This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolved through the marketing and practice of Ann Summers parties. These parties play with the dynamic of useless men and liberated women, offering sex toys as the solution to the power gap; they promote hegemonic masculinity as inevitable whilst ridiculing it at the same time. This book shows that sex toys are symbolically central to current power formations in gender and class relations. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot from this book.'Professor Beverley Skeggs, Department ofSociology, University of Manchester'Meticulously researched, and written with great verve and style, Latex and Lingerie makes a major contribution to our understanding of heterosexual femininities. It shows how being 'one of the girls' is constructed around manifold exclusions of class, sexuality, 'race' and ethnicity, and how the 'fun' on offer in Anne Summers parties is of a distinctly post-feminist variety. Storr has fashioned a highly original analysis of female homosociality that takes both its pleasures and its problems seriously. This is an extremely important book that is destined to become a classic in the fields of gender, sexuality and cultural studies.'Rosalind Gill, Gender Institute, London School of Economics, "This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolved through the marketing and practice of Ann Summers parties. These parties play with the dynamic of useless men and liberated women, offering sex toys as the solution to the power gap; they promote hegemonic masculinity as inevitable whilst ridiculing it at the same time. This book shows that sex toys are symbolically central to current power formations in gender and class relations. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot from this book." -- Professor Beverley Skeggs, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester "Meticulously researched, and written with great verve and style, Latex and Lingerie makes a major contribution to our understanding of heterosexual femininities. It shows how being 'one of the girls' is constructed around manifold exclusions of class, sexuality, 'race' and ethnicity, and how the 'fun' on offer in Anne Summers parties is of a distinctly post-feminist variety. Storr has fashioned a highly original analysis of female homosociality that takes both its pleasures and its problems seriously. This is an extremely important book that is destined to become a classic in the fields of gender, sexuality and cultural studies." --Rosalind Gill, Gender Institute, London School of Economics, "This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolved through the marketing and practice of Ann Summers parties. These parties play with the dynamic of useless men and liberated women, offering sex toys as the solution to the power gap; they promote hegemonic masculinity as inevitable whilst ridiculing it at the same time. This book shows that sex toys are symbolically central to current power formations in gender and class relations. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot from this book." -- Professor Beverley Skeggs, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester "Meticulously researched, and written with great verve and style,Latex and Lingeriemakes a major contribution to our understanding of heterosexual femininities. It shows how being 'one of the girls' is constructed around manifold exclusions of class, sexuality, 'race' and ethnicity, and how the 'fun' on offer in Anne Summers parties is of a distinctly post-feminist variety. Storr has fashioned a highly original analysis of female homosociality that takes both its pleasures and its problems seriously. This is an extremely important book that is destined to become a classic in the fields of gender, sexuality and cultural studies." --Rosalind Gill, Gender Institute, London School of Economics
Dewey Decimal
381/.45687/0820941
Table Of Content
Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements 1 Introducing Ann Summers The Ann Summers Party Plan Ann Summers @ a typical party plan? Researching Ann Summers Liquorice allsorts 'The No 1 Fun Company' Personality, skill and emotional labour 'Young mums' Ann Summers as post-feminist fun Hidden depths About this book 2 'The Ultimate Girls' Night In' Conceptualising Homosociality Male homosociality Female homosociality Ann Summers and Female Homosociality Helping women to serve the interests of men Being one of the girls Lesbophobia Summary and Conclusion 3 Objects of Desire Ann Summers Parties for Men? She Likes Men Feeling sexy Men in uniform @ 'hello boys!' 'All that's Missing in the Man!' The penis and the phallus Pass my penis Feel it, believe it! Summary and Conclusion 4 Feminine Bodies, Feminine Pleasures The Heterosexual Female Erogenous Body at Ann Summers Parties Technique and interior zones Technique and exterior zones Erogenous functions The Female Homosocial Body at Ann Summers Parties The homosocial body's oral pleasures The homosocial body's vocal pleasures The homosocial body's tactile pleasures The homosocial body's visual pleasures Summary and Conclusion 5 Classy Lingerie Peeling the Lemon Homosocial Underwear The girls go shopping Luxury/utility Sleaze/respectability Eroticism/domesticity Summary and Conclusion 6 Conclusion References Index
Synopsis
Sexy, hedonistic, hilarious - Ann Summers parties are the ultimate girls' night in. Promising the perfect antidote to the toils of everyday life - sexual pleasure - they are the 'naughty but nice' version of the classic Tupperware® party. Ann Summers parties are incredibly popular, with around 4000 parties held in Britain every week. The basis is simple: to provide an all-female environment where women can buy sexy lingerie, erotic fashion, sex toys and other sex-related products. In many respects these parties enable women to transgress social taboos in the comfort of their own homes. But they are also a subtle means of constructing and enforcing heterosexual femininity. This book investigates what really goes on at these 'special' homosocial gatherings, where heterosexual women drink, laugh, shop, play party games and talk about sex. Storr develops a new analysis of the ways heterosexual women identify with and against each other - and of what this tells us about gender, sexuality and consumption in contemporary society. Drawing on both participant observation and in-depth interviews with party organizers, this fascinating and fun book is an indispensable guide to the politics of 'post-feminist' culture., Sexy, hedonistic, hilarious - Ann Summers parties are the ultimate girls' night in. Promising the perfect antidote to the toils of everyday life - sexual pleasure - they are the 'naughty but nice' version of the classic Tupperware(R) party. Ann Summers parties are incredibly popular, with around 4000 parties held in Britain every week. The basis is simple: to provide an all-female environment where women can buy sexy lingerie, erotic fashion, sex toys and other sex-related products. In many respects these parties enable women to transgress social taboos in the comfort of their own homes. But they are also a subtle means of constructing and enforcing heterosexual femininity. This book investigates what really goes on at these 'special' homosocial gatherings, where heterosexual women drink, laugh, shop, play party games and talk about sex. Storr develops a new analysis of the ways heterosexual women identify with and against each other - and of what this tells us about gender, sexuality and consumption in contemporary society. Drawing on both participant observation and in-depth interviews with party organizers, this fascinating and fun book is an indispensable guide to the politics of 'post-feminist' culture.
LC Classification Number
HF5439.L37S86 2003
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