Binding and Unbinding Kink

This book is a collection of essays highlighting different disciplinary, topical, and practical approaches to the study of kink and popular culture. The volume is written by both academics and practitioners, bringing the essays a special perspective not seen in other volumes. Essays included examine everything from Nina Hartley fan letters to kink shibari witches to kink tourism in a South African prison. The focus is not just on kink as a sexual practice, but on kink as a subculture, as a way of living, and as a way of seeing popular culture in new and interesting ways.

1. Introduction: Binding and Unbinding Kink by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone. - Section One Con/Textual Kink. - 2. A Man s Right to be a Slave: Interrogating Race and Class in Mr. Benson - Marie Franco. - 3. Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls: Kink and Queer Becoming in Contemporary Intersex Narratives - Lauren Zwicky. - 4. I m straight, right? : Submission, Pegging, and Coprophilia in Nina Hartley s Fan Mail Archive - Ingrid Olson. - 5. Translation is a Rope - Wemar Strydom. - Section Two Media Kink. - 6. `When I lose my virginity, I want to be on my period : Kink, Abjection, and Female Adolescent Sexuality in Contemporary Cinema - Lisa Ellen Williams. - 7. Bound to Capitalism: The Pursuit of Profit and Pleasure in Online Pornography - Jennifer Miller. - 8. Speculum and Stirrups: Medicine, Power, Transgression, and Kink in Online Gyno-Pornography - Brenda Gardenour Walter. - 9. (title not yet confirmed)- Ummni Khan. - Section Three Living Kink:. - 10. Femdom and Popular Appeal: A Scholarly Rant - Julie Fennell. - 11. Costumes, Power, and Excess: The Kink of Neo-Burlesque - Jessica Thorpe. - 12. Wicked Knots: Kinbaku, Witchcraft, and Kinky Liberation - Brenda Gardenour Walter with Haleigh Schiafo. - 13. `Too Mundane to Make Good Erotic Drama : Teasing Out the Queer Pleasures of Kink- Mary Ann Davis. - 14. A Mistress, Her Slave, and their Queen: Black Leatherwomen and the Networked Family. - Kirin Wachter-Grene. - 15. Conclusion: The Architecture of Kink: From Liminal Space to Everyday Life by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone.