Power, pleasure, and play: Screwing the dildo and rescripting sexual violence

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 329-349

  Minge, Jeanine ^a,c   Zimmerman, Amber Lynn ^b  

^a Department of Physics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bricolage; Feminism; Resignification; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549106381     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800408326848     Document Type: Article

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