Power struggles: Pain and authenticity in SM play

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 389-411

  Newmahr, Staci ^a  

^a BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Pain; Sadomasochism; Social construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955193536     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2010.33.3.389     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Adler, Patricia and Peter Adler. 2007. "The Demedicalization of Self-Injury: From Psychopathology to Sociological Deviance." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 36(5):537-570
2. Aldrich, Sarah and Chris Eccleston. 2000. "Making Sense of Everyday Pain." Social Science and Medicine 50:1631-1641
3. Alford, Robert and Andras Szanto. 1996. "Orpheus Wounded: The Experience of Pain in the Professional Worlds of the Piano." Theory and Society 25(1):1-44.
4. Bendelow, Gillian. 2006. "Pain, Suffering, and Risk." Health, Risk, and Society 8(1):59-70.
5. Bendelow, Gillian and Simon Williams. 1995. "Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism: A Sociological Approach." Body and Society 1(2):83-103.
6. Best, Shaun. 2007. "The Social Construction of Pain: An Evaluation." Disability and Society 22(2):161-171
7. Brame, Gloria, William Brame, and Jon Jacobs. 1996. Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission. New York: Villard.
8. Bromley, David G. 2007. "On Spiritual Performances: The Logic of Extreme Ritual Performances." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46(3):287-303.
9. Califia, Patrick. 2002. Sensuous Magic: A Guide to S/M for Adventurous Couples. 2nd ed. New York: Masquerade Books.
10. Curry, Timothy Jon. 1993. "A Little Pain Never Hurt Anyone: Athletic Career Socialization and the Normalization of Sports Injury." Symbolic Interaction 16:273-290
11. Donnelly, Peter. 2004. "Sport and Risk Culture." Pp. 27-57 in Sporting Bodies, Damaged Selves: Sociological Studies of Sports-Related Injury, edited by K. Young. London: Elsevier.
12. Downey, Greg. 2007. "Producing Pain: Techniques and Technologies in No-Holds-Barred Fighting." Social Studies of Science 37(2):201-226
13. Edwards, Emily D. 1998. "Firewalking: A Contemporary Ritual and Transformation." Drama Review 42(2):98-114.
14. Ellis, Havelock. 1927. Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Vol.3 (of 6). Philadelphia: Davis.
15. Frey, James H. 1991. "Social Risk and the Meaning of Sport." Sociology of Sport Journal 8:136-145
16. Honkasalo, Marja-Liisa. 1998. "Space and Embodied Experience: Rethinking the Body in Pain." Body and Society 4(2):35-57.
17. Howe, P. David. 2004. Sport, Professionalism, and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk. London: Taylor and Francis.
18. Hughes, B. and K. Paterson. 1997. "The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body: Towards a Sociology of Impairment." Disability and Society 12(3):325-340
19. Le Breton, David. 2000. "Playing Symbolically with Death in Extreme Sports." Body and Society 6(1):1-11.
20. Lupton, Deborah. 1999. Risk. New York: Routledge.
21. Malcolm, Nancy L. 2006. "Shaking It Off and Toughing It Out: Socialization to Pain and Injury in Girls' Softball." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35(5):495-525.
22. Melzack, Ronald. 1973. The Puzzle of Pain. New York: Basic Books.
23. Messner, Michael. 1990. "Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18(4):416-444
24. Morris, David B. 1991. The Culture of Pain. Berkeley: University of California Press.
25. Newmahr, Staci. 2008. "Becoming a Sadomasochist: Integrating Self and Other in Ethnographic Analysis." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 37(5):619-643
26. Nixon, Howard L. 1993. "Accepting the Risks of Pain and Injury in Sport: Mediated Cultural Influences on Playing Hurt." Sociology of Sport Journal 10:183-196
27. Sanders, Clinton and D. Angus Vail. 2008. Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
28. Sansom, Jane A. 1998. "Firewalking: Explanation and the Mind-Body Relationship." Australian Journal of Anthropology 9(2):194-208.
29. Scarry, Elaine. 1985. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press.
30. Seham, Amy. 2001. Whose Improv Is It Anyway? Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
31. Smith, R. Tyson. 2008. "Pain in the Act: The Meanings of Pain among Professional Wrestlers." Qualitative Sociology 31(2):129-148
32. Vail, Angus D. 1999. "The Commodification of Time in Two Art Worlds." Symbolic Interaction 22:325-344
33. Wacquant, Loïc. 2004. Body and Soul: Ethnographic Notebooks of an Apprentice-Boxer. New York: Oxford University Press.
34. Weiss, Margot. 2006. "Working at Play: BDSM Sexuality in the San Francisco Bay Area." Anthropologica 48(2):229-245
35. Williams, D. J. 2006. "Different (Painful) Strokes for Different Folks: A General Overview of Sexual Sadomasochism (SM) and Its Diversity." Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity 13(4):333-346
36. Young, Kevin. 2004. "Sports-Related Pain and Injury: Sociological Notes." In Sport, Professionalism, and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk. London: Taylor and Francis.
37. Zborowski, Mark. 1969. People in Pain. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.