ATTWOOD, F. (2006). Sexed up: theorizing the sexualization of culture. Sexualities, 9 (1), 77-94.
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Abstract
This paper reviews and examines emerging academic approaches to the study of ‘sexualized culture’; an examination made necessary by contemporary preoccupations with sexual values, practices and identities, the emergence of new forms of sexual experience and the apparent breakdown of rules, categories and regulations designed to keep the obscene at bay. The paper maps out some key themes and preoccupations in recent academic writing on sex and sexuality, especially those relating to the contemporary or emerging characteristics of sexual discourse. The key issues of pornographication and democratization, taste formations, postmodern sex and intimacy, and sexual citizenship are explored in detail.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © SAGE Publications |
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Communication and Computing Research Centre |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460706053336 |
Page Range: | 77-94 |
Depositing User: | Ann Betterton |
Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2007 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 14:30 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50 |
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