But femsub is broken too! On the normalisation of BDSM and the problem of pleasure

Psychology and Sexuality

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-68

  Dymock, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

criminal law; feminine sexuality; feminist theory; Jacques Lacan; psychiatry; queer theory; sexual ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858326766     PISSN: 19419899     EISSN: 19419902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2011.627696     Document Type: Article

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