Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary

by Ummni Khan

Who decides where "normal" stops and "perverse" begins? In Vicarious Kinks, Ummni Khan looks at the mass of claims that film, feminism, the human sciences, and law make about sadomasochism and its practitioners, and the way those claims become the basis for the legal regulation of sadomasochist pornography and practice. Khan's audacious proposal is that for film, feminism, law, and science, the constant focus on taboo sexuality is a form of "vicarious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442615516
• ISBN13: 9781442615519
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher