Consensual non-consent: Comparing EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey and Pauline Réage's Story of O

Sexualities

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 864-879

  Tsaros, Angelika ^a  

^a Institute for Queer Theory   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agency; BDSM; consent; erotica; representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890132004     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508903     Document Type: Article

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