Sex, Violence and the Body

1. Introducing the Erotics of Wounding: Sex, Violence and the Body
Jeff Hearn, Viv Burr

2. Body Modification as Self-Mutilation by Proxy
Sheila Jeffreys

3. Breast Augmentation Surgery: Carving the Flesh as Female
Taina Kinnunen

4. Physical Bruises, Emotional Scars and ‘Love-Bites’: Women’s Experiences of Men’s Violence
Michelle Jones, Jeff Hearn

5. Harming or Healing? The Meanings of Wounding among Sadomasochists Who Also Self-Injure
Ani Ritchie

6. Making the Moves: Masculinities, Bodies, Risk and Death in the ‘Extreme’ Sport of Rock Climbing
Victoria Robinson

7. Transformations of Pain: Erotic Encounters with Crash
Anthony McCosker

8. Tortured Heroes: The Story of Ouch! Fan Fiction and Sadomasochism
Jenny Alexander

9. ‘Oh Spike you’re covered in sexy wounds!’ The Erotic Significance of Wounding and Torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Viv Burr

10. Spectacular Pain: Masculinity, Masochism and Men in the Movies
Tim Edwards

11. Cut Pieces: Self-Mutilation in Body Art
Ulla Angkjœr Jørgensen

12. The Loathsome, the Rough Type and the Monster: The Violence and Wounding of Media Texts on Rape
Mona Livholts

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general, Popular Science in Psychology, Sexual Behavior