This article constitutes a theoretical critique of the limits by which BDSM is policed by law
and psychiatry from a feminist jurisprudential perspective. In particular, it discusses types of …

What can we learn about elite politics from the humble toilet? How do the relations between
toilets, bodies, and waste materially and discursively reveal, and become enrolled within …

With its evocations of childishness and impropriety, an alluring blend of mischievousness
and titillation, the term naughty seems not a little inadequate for describing the passionate …

In the long line of French Sade studies, Deleuze's essay Coldness and Cruelty marks out a
special place. By discussing Masoch both in addition to and in contrast to Sade, Deleuze …

While most recent studies of sadomasochism center in the fields of cultural and sexuality
studies, this project returns sadomasochism to the realm of literary criticism and queer theory …

In Coldness and Cruelty, Deleuze remarks that masochism may be reflected on from three
perspectives: as a pleasure–pain alliance, as an enactment of humiliation and slavery, and …

Sigmund Freud's theories of the anus in psychological development appear so idiosyncratic
that few have thought to wonder what cultural and intellectual pressures contributed to such …

Russian conceptualist art was born of the late Soviet era. Initially its performances were
confined to small groups and could be shared with wider audiences only orally, as tall tales …

This paper explores contemporary Japanese engagement with Lovecraft by considering
themes of transformation and metamorphosis, particularly those brought about by …

According to early psychologists and sexologists, female sadism was one of the least
common paraphilias. Often seen as the complimentary creation of the male masochist, the …