Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the 'sexualization' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in post-war society.

Striptease Culture is divided in to three sections:

* Part one – traces the development of pornography, following its movement from elite to mass culture and the contemporary fascination with ‘porno-chic’
* Part two – considers popular cultural forms of sexual representation in the media, moving from backlash elements in straight male culture and changing images of women, to the representation of gays in contemporary film and television
* Part three – looks at the use of sexuality in contemporary art, examinging the artistic ‘striptease’ of Jeff Koons, and others who have used their own naked bodies in their work.

Also considering how feminist and gay artists have employed sexuality in the critique and transformation of patriarchy, the high profile of sexuality as a key contributor to public health education in the era of HIV and AIDS, and the implications of the rise of striptease culture for the future of sexual poltics, Brian McNair has produced an excellent book in the study of gender, sexuality and contemporary culture.

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Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the 'sexualization' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in post-war society.

Striptease Culture is divided in to three sections:

* Part one – traces the development of pornography, following its movement from elite to mass culture and the contemporary fascination with ‘porno-chic’
* Part two – considers popular cultural forms of sexual representation in the media, moving from backlash elements in straight male culture and changing images of women, to the representation of gays in contemporary film and television
* Part three – looks at the use of sexuality in contemporary art, examinging the artistic ‘striptease’ of Jeff Koons, and others who have used their own naked bodies in their work.

Also considering how feminist and gay artists have employed sexuality in the critique and transformation of patriarchy, the high profile of sexuality as a key contributor to public health education in the era of HIV and AIDS, and the implications of the rise of striptease culture for the future of sexual poltics, Brian McNair has produced an excellent book in the study of gender, sexuality and contemporary culture.

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Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire

Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire

by Brian McNair
Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire

Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire

by Brian McNair

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From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the 'sexualization' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in post-war society.

Striptease Culture is divided in to three sections:

* Part one – traces the development of pornography, following its movement from elite to mass culture and the contemporary fascination with ‘porno-chic’
* Part two – considers popular cultural forms of sexual representation in the media, moving from backlash elements in straight male culture and changing images of women, to the representation of gays in contemporary film and television
* Part three – looks at the use of sexuality in contemporary art, examinging the artistic ‘striptease’ of Jeff Koons, and others who have used their own naked bodies in their work.

Also considering how feminist and gay artists have employed sexuality in the critique and transformation of patriarchy, the high profile of sexuality as a key contributor to public health education in the era of HIV and AIDS, and the implications of the rise of striptease culture for the future of sexual poltics, Brian McNair has produced an excellent book in the study of gender, sexuality and contemporary culture.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415237338
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/21/2002
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brian McNair is Reader in Film and Media Studies at the University of Stirling, and a member of the Stirling Media Research Institute. His books include Mediated Sex (1996), The Sociology of Journalism (1998) and Journalism and Democracy (Routledge, 2000).

Table of Contents

List of figures. Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. Sex Matters 2. From Wilde to Wild: the End of Patriarch, Or Is It All Just History Repeating Part I Cultural Sexualisation: from Pornosphere to Public Sphere 3. The Amazing Expanding Pornosphere 4. Porno-chic, or the Pornographication of the Mainstream 5. Striptease Culture: the Sexualisation of the Public Sphere Part II Sexual Representation 6. Women, Know Your Limits! 7. The Mainstreaming of Gayness 8. Men Behaving Sadly: the Crisis of Masculinity? Part III The Aesthetics of Sexual Transgression 9. Men, Sex and Transgression 10. Queer Culture 11. Bad Girls: Sexual Transgression as Feminist Strategy 12. Conclusions. Bibliography
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