{"product_id":"performing-sex-breanne-fahs-9781438437828","title":"Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA candid and provocative critique of women's sexual liberation in America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSilver Medalist, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Issues category \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2011 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeWord\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Book of the Year in the Women's Issues Category \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough conventional wisdom holds that women in the United States today are more sexually liberated than ever before, a number of startling statistics call into question this perceived victory: over half of all women report having faked orgasms; 45 percent of women find rape fantasies erotic; a growing number of women perform same-sex eroticism for the viewing benefit of men; and recent clinical studies label 40 percent of women as \"sexually dysfunctional.\" Caught between postsexual revolution celebrations of progress and alarmingly regressive new modes of disempowerment, the forty women interviewed in Performing Sex offer a candid and provocative portrait of \"liberated\" sex in America. Through this nuanced and complex study, Breanne Fahs demonstrates that despite the constant cooptation of the terms of sexual freedom, women's sexual subjectivities-and the ways they continually grapple with shifting definitions of liberation-represent provocative spaces for critical inquiry and personal discovery, ultimately generating novel ways of imagining and reimagining power, pleasure, and resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Breanne Fahs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 143843782X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438437828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.05w x 1.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e IndieFab awards - Honorable Mention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2011 pg. 94","brand":"Breanne Fahs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088255693055,"sku":"9781438437828","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_47decf2f-2070-4f2b-a482-ec55f21b6e0e.jpg?v=1769103898","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/performing-sex-breanne-fahs-9781438437828","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}