Intimate adventures: Sex blogs, sex 'blooks' and women's sexual narration

European Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-20

  Attwood, Feona ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belle de Jour; Blook; Chick lit; Erotica; Girl with a One Track Mind; Postfeminism; Sex and the City; Sex blog; Sex talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849132878     PISSN: 13675494     EISSN: 14603551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367549408098702     Document Type: Article

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