Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34Z_OP_A2087
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic. First published as eBook 15-Oct-2020
- ISBN
- 978-1-7883-1126-7
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph (212pp) presents a new account of the significance of Bad/Dirty women through a focus on the experiences of marginalised women who fall in-between binaries. The book critically interrogates and synthesises a number of key debates on femininity, pleasure, agency, and sexualisation, in order to situate 'Bad Women’ as sites of power, possibility and success. ‘Dangerous femininities’ were examined through extensive ethnographic fieldwork over a 2-year period and included 4 interviews, 3 case studies, and analyses of 170 performances. The research also involved participant observation of 109 different performers at 42 burlesque and kink/BDSM/fetish events and performances.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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