Orgasmic Bodies: The Orgasm in Contemporary Western Culture

by Hannah Frith

Book Overview

Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of masculinities and femininities. Engaging with both science and popular culture it examines the meanings given to orgasmic bodies in contemporary heterosex.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137304367
• ISBN13: 9781137304360
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"