Dungeon Intimacies: The Poetics of Transsexual Sadomasochism Available to Purchase

“Dungeon Intimacies: The Poetics of Transsexual Sadomasochism” stresses the agency of the local as something more than merely reactive to globalization. It documents the S/M scene of the time (2008) and its innovations in forms of corporeal becoming-together. The author draws a phenomenology of experimental corporeal experience rather than relying on a psychoanalysis that takes gender categories as given. Through practices, of which S/M is only one example, bodies emerge out of the ambiguity of being into a language all their own.