Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism

This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon the female-authored erotic memoir and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism.

Autorentext

Joel Gwynne is Assistant Professor of English at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He is the author of The Secular Visionaries: Aestheticism and New Zealand Short Fiction in the Twentieth Century (2010) and is the co-editor of two other books: Sexuality and Contemporary Literature (2012) and Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (2013).

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Agency 2. Intimacy 3. Pornography 4. Transgression Conclusion