A lover's pinch
Subtitle: a cultural history of sadomasochism
By: Peter Tupper
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781538111178
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: History; Sadomasochism; Sex
Description: From the ancient Christian flagellants to the Fifty Shades trilogy, the history of consensual sadomasochism is a story of fascinating individuals, unlikely connections, and strange twists and turns. Meet Arthur Munby, the Victorian gentleman who secretly married Hannah Cullwick, his maid of all work, and called her his slave; and Jack McGeorge, the UN weapons inspector who was outed as a BDSM club leader just before the Iraq war. Explore the links between Robinson Crusoe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and modern BDSM pornography, as well as those between fetish fashion and anti-Catholic propaganda. Learn how the nineteenth-century middle-class household nurtured dominant-submissive sexuality. Discover the secret history of a hidden world--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the marriage of heaven and hell: a cultural history of sadomasochism; title: Saints and shamans; title: The pornography of the puritan; title: Virtue in distress; title: Orientalism; title: The peculiar institution; title: Romance of the rod; title: Class and classification; title: Every woman adores a fascist; title: The velvet underground; title: Unknown pleasures; title: Alt.sex; title: Sex and power; title: Conclusion.