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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 kink" itself. Rather than attempt to establish the "truth" about sadomasochism, Vicarious Kinks asks who decides that sadomasochism is perverse, examining how various fields present their claims to truth when it comes to sadomasochism. The first monograph by a new scholar working at the juncture of law and sexuality, Vicarious Kinks challenges the myth of law as an objective adjudicator of sexual truth.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Vicarious Kinks
• Author: Ummni Khan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9781442615519
• ISBN: 1442615516
• ID: 02737567
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Weight: 570 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 162 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. May 2014

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