{"product_id":"mediated-intimacy-meg-john-barker-9781509509126","title":"Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMediated Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and practices these changing forms of 'sexpertise' open up, and which they close down.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book reveals the intimate operation of power in mediated advice, how words and images, stories and sound can work to shore up social injustice. It critically engages with the ideas of choice and responsibility in sex self-help, arguing that these can obscure and\/or justify oppression, even if they're sometimes experienced as empowering and\/or pleasurable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis bold and incisive book provides a radical challenge to the assumptions underlying the sex advice industry, and presents a critical, collaborative and consensual vision for sex advice of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meg-John Barker, Rosalind Gill, Laura Harvey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509509127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509509126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Meg-John Barker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985348886783,"sku":"9781509509126","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_19043a32-3195-4226-9ce5-8f69633ba3ba.jpg?v=1683277040","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mediated-intimacy-meg-john-barker-9781509509126","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}