A Psychodynamic Approach To Female Domination In Bdsm Relationships Sexuality Between Pleasure And Work Nathalie Lugand by Nathalie Lugand 9781032192925, 9781032192956, 1032192925, 103219295X, 2022030819, 2022030820 instant download after payment.

This ground-breaking book explores contemporary forms of BDSM where
women dominate in relationships and professions, opening new paths for
psychological research in commercial and non-commercial BDSM.

Based on a unique combination of qualitative investigation and
academic research, it examines how BDSM has often crystalized conflicts
in contemporary feminist debates, where sexually dominant women are
pictured either as victims or as agents of resistance to the patriarchy.
Nathalie Lugand argues that female domination in heterosexual BDSM is
above all situated in a continuum structured by the values of care and
by the circulation of money. Through a novel psychodynamic approach,
Lugand demystifies BDSM relationships where women dominate, considering
the impact of social relations of work in the construction of sexual
identity and analyzing the difficulties that they cause in the erotic
economy. The book affirms that to better understand the pleasure taken
in female domination practices and the difficulties for women to impose
themselves as dominatrixes, it is necessary to shift the focus away from
transgressive aspects and look towards the workplace and the
organisation of work in women's sexuality.

Using field immersion to comprehensively investigate the blurred boundaries between life and work in the BDSM community, A Psychodynamic Approach to Female Domination in BDSM Relationships provides
the opportunity for a new interpretation of sexuality, overturning the
existing theoretical frameworks used in clinical psychology and
psychoanalysis. This book is essential reading for researchers and
academics in psychology, gender studies, political and social sciences,
and human sexuality, as well as activists defending the human rights of
sex workers around the world.