... and tools of historically specific injustices such as the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and especially the transatlantic slave trade. Rather than condemning this kind of role playing--especially as it takes place between black and white men--Julien offers sadomasochism as an embodied way to feel historical...

... of sex as crime, the confessional risks and rewards of “testimony,” the sadomasochism of Catharine MacKinnon’s influential work, and the political necessity of refusing visibility and speech as the ascribed priorities for black feminist sexual freedom. The final thematic foregrounds the university...

...: the sadomasochistic blur of sexuality and violence. In effect, she sets up an s/m scene of and for feminism. The self-flagellating reading pleasures of MacKinnon unsettle the relation between her dismissal of lesbian sadomasochism and her own s/m textuality. This is not to say that her argument is flawed...

... designates as reflexive sadomasochism. For Freud, masochism remained the most enigmatic and elusive of the so-called perversions, the one, he suggests in Three Essays on the Theory ofSexuality (1905), that most defies a "satisfactory explanation" (25). Trying further to unravel the mystery of masochism...

... to depictions of sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the exploitation of children, or individuals engaged in sex acts; or, material which denigrates the objects or beliefs of the adherents of a particular religion or non-religion" (italicized portions were subsequently deleted). In the original proposal the following...

... discussion of sadism in connection to “propping” (the “leaning of nascent sexuality on nonsexual activities” [88]) in Life and Death in Psychoanalysis (85–102). See also the lectures of January 9, 1973 and January 23, 1973 in Problématiques 1: L’angoisse on questions of sadomasochism, including...

...; the pleasure, similarly and perhaps inseparably, comes with the play of power between women. Setting the Social Scene Lesbian sadomasochism made its first public appearance in 1978, writes Ruby Rich, "with the slm contingent of Samois members marching in the Society of Janus contingent of the San Francisco Gay...

... whether lesbian sadomasochism is politically feminist into a personal-theoretical meditation on how feminism works in the scenario of a lesbian slm fantasy, suggesting that the unrelenting popularity of the debate has much to do with the (re)definition of power within feminism and with the power...

... is not as such “Freudian” but something grounded in fragments of Freud and an ambience of gaze theory, post-Benjaminian anxieties concerning “violence,” and differences with Foucault on sadomasochism, all of which echo in his énoncé . Up to the point that he brings these reliefs under his regard, he has given an account...

... hetero. To campily mock heteronormative power (Mortimer is presented as also a practitioner of sadomasochism) is to be in league with that power. While I disagree with their critique of the film, I want to let it stand in order to bring out their exploration of how we might think and see resistance...

..., and sadomasochism were all vilified within a feminist d fferences 77 rhetoric, and some causal primacy in the creation and maintenance of female subordination was attributed to each of them. Somehow, these poor sexual deviations were suddenly the ultimate expressions of patriarchal domination. I found this move...

.... “Futures.” The Futures of American Studies . Ed. Robyn Wiegman and Donald E. Pease, Jr. Durham: Duke UP, forthcoming. Riley, Denise. “ Am I That Name?” Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History . Minneapolis:U of Minnesota P, 1988 . Rubin, Gayle. “ The Criminalization of Sadomasochism...

... ads, such that sadomasochism is in effect redefined as normal and even normative, can sadomasochism still define the perverse?) We may need to redefine trauma as meaning something other than the unrepresentable...

... gives way to a discrimination between bad heterosexual eroticism and good eroticisms of every other kind; then to an expose of the double phallocentrism of male homosexuality; then to a condemnation of lesbian sadomasochism for being infected with the proclivities of patriarchal desire; next...

... sadomasochism too, it is the question of the status, value, and control of the female body that is at stake, and the implements of sexual desire which serve as fetishes. What d fferences 287 lesbians share in common, de Lauretis suggests, is that "in all these cases perverse desire is sustained on fantasy...

... feminists—this radicalism seemed condemned, along with the sexual experimentation of the period, to the countercultural margins. It is true that the exploration of lesbian sadomasochism was to have no great social legacy...

... pleasure in the subjectivity in suffering. An analysis of power as jointly distributed in a dialectic of master and mistress, explored below as the mirrored dynamic of sadomasochism, puts pressure on the patriarchal signifier and opens the possibility that relationality is “an expression of power...

... and Joan W. Scott. New York: Routledge, 1992 . 86 -100. Hart, Lynda. Between the Body and the Flesh: Performing Sadomasochism . New York: Columbia UP, 1998 . Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998...

... union (Three 150), as well as with anal eroticism, voyeurism, and sadomasochism. In this essay, Freud states that fetishism is indeed "habitually present in normal love" (Three 154), as a "necessary condition attached to the sexual object," an aspect of sexual attraction-a point consistent with his...

... used to express it. This affirmative valuation of the link between language and sexuality was thus possible only insofar as Remond and Voivenel read the passage as a literal celebration of normative virility, of a glorious, phallic tumescence. They literalized the excerpt's sadomasochism...